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POLICY AND POLITICS: A matter of public knowledge? Inquiring into the Grenfell Tower disaster

POLICY AND POLITICS: A matter of public knowledge? Inquiring into the Grenfell Tower disaster

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  • October 04, 2017

John Clarke This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. The section is curated [...]

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Post-truth is a Feminist Issue

Post-truth is a Feminist Issue

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  • October 04, 2017

Eva Giraud As pointed to by the other articles within this special section, fractious debates have emerged about the relationship between [...]

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Making space for connective truths

Making space for connective truths

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  • October 04, 2017

Sujatha Raman For those who study how people generate and deploy knowledge, the late 20th century is known as a time [...]

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Learning from the CIA: STS and political intervention

Learning from the CIA: STS and political intervention

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  • October 04, 2017

Greg Hollin  It always struck me, and I know many others, that one of the most striking aspects of Bruno [...]

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Pluralism versus Populism: Socially Situating Knowledge not Side-lining Scientific Expertise

Pluralism versus Populism: Socially Situating Knowledge not Side-lining Scientific Expertise

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  • October 04, 2017

Fred Steward The UK’s first Labour government in the 1920s was undermined by ‘fake news’. The Zinoviev letter, published in the [...]

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Academic Click-baiting and the Neo-liberal University

Academic Click-baiting and the Neo-liberal University

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  • October 04, 2017

John Holmwood In an article on the recent scandal associated with the radical journal, Third World Quarterly, which published a piece [...]

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On Cheerleading and Political Football: Research and Activism in Trump’s America

On Cheerleading and Political Football: Research and Activism in Trump’s America

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  • October 04, 2017

Carolyn Chernoff Let’s mix metaphors: some kinds of research are cheerleading, inside baseball, and political footballs all at once. Sports allusions [...]

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What happens after a disaster?

What happens after a disaster?

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  • October 04, 2017

John Drury and Selin Tekin Guven One of the things that sometimes happens after a disaster is that the people affected [...]

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I got breast cancer from my dad! How did that happen?

I got breast cancer from my dad! How did that happen?

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  • October 04, 2017

Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Christine Garrington For Stephanie, getting tested for the hereditary breast cancer gene was something of a no-brainer. After [...]

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Welfare as Purgatory: The irrational rationality of activation and sanctions

Welfare as Purgatory: The irrational rationality of activation and sanctions

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  • October 04, 2017

Tom Boland and Ray Griffin Do policy makers design welfare systems to punish claimants? By making welfare payments depend upon jobseekers [...]

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