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Solidarity in the Neoliberal University? Acts of Kindness and the Ethics of Care During the UCU Pensions Dispute

Solidarity in the Neoliberal University? Acts of Kindness and the Ethics of Care During the UCU Pensions Dispute

  • By discoversociety
  • March 31, 2018

Sarah Burton and Vikki Turbine Who gets to have, and give, solidarity in the neoliberal university? Is solidarity even possible in [...]

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Vice-chancellors should start planning their climb-down strategies

Vice-chancellors should start planning their climb-down strategies

  • By discoversociety
  • March 08, 2018

David Bartram The UCU is well on its way to winning the pensions dispute. The flaws in the “deficit” story are [...]

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Focus: Postsocialism and whiteness – why the Yugoslav region was never outside ‘race’

Focus: Postsocialism and whiteness – why the Yugoslav region was never outside ‘race’

  • By discoversociety
  • March 06, 2018

Catherine Baker Race has worked its way into national identities around the globe except, as most studies of postsocialist Europe until [...]

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Viewpoint: The political theory of enlightened isolationism, or, in muted praise of Jeremy Corbyn

Viewpoint: The political theory of enlightened isolationism, or, in muted praise of Jeremy Corbyn

  • By discoversociety
  • March 06, 2018

Charles Turner Many on the right of the Tory party fear that Jeremy Corbyn may be about to slip into Number [...]

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On the Frontline: Ethnography in a time of neoliberalised learning and teaching

On the Frontline: Ethnography in a time of neoliberalised learning and teaching

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  • March 06, 2018

Daniel Briggs As we return to the square in Valdmingómez, we see a man with his sleeve rolled up next to [...]

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Policy & Politics: The inefficiency of using management consultants in public sector organisations, the case of the NHS

Policy & Politics: The inefficiency of using management consultants in public sector organisations, the case of the NHS

  • By discoversociety
  • March 06, 2018

Ian Kirkpatrick, Andrew Sturdy and Gianluca Veronesi This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy & Politics. [...]

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Merely a One-Way Transaction: The Emotional Management of Organ Donation

Merely a One-Way Transaction: The Emotional Management of Organ Donation

  • By discoversociety
  • March 06, 2018

Stephanie Parsons There are currently around 6,500 people on the UK transplant waiting list and nearly 500 people died last year [...]

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Thicker than water? Sperm donors and the question of relatedness

Thicker than water? Sperm donors and the question of relatedness

  • By discoversociety
  • March 06, 2018

Alison Wheatley Who are you related to? For some people, this question does not have a straightforward answer. New reproductive technologies [...]

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Are mandatory visits to concentration camp memorials the answer?

Are mandatory visits to concentration camp memorials the answer?

  • By discoversociety
  • March 06, 2018

Doreen Pastor In response to an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Sawsan Chebli, State Secretary for Federal Affairs in the state of Berlin, [...]

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Poland: Rewarded with UN Security Council membership whilst flirting with Racism and Nationalism

Poland: Rewarded with UN Security Council membership whilst flirting with Racism and Nationalism

  • By discoversociety
  • March 06, 2018

Bolaji Balogun On 2 June 2017, Poland took a seat at the UN Security Council to serve alongside Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, [...]

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