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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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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Sujatha Raman For those who study how people generate and deploy knowledge, the late 20th century is known as a time [...]
Read moreLearning from the CIA: STS and political intervention
Greg Hollin It always struck me, and I know many others, that one of the most striking aspects of Bruno [...]
Read morePluralism versus Populism: Socially Situating Knowledge not Side-lining Scientific Expertise
Fred Steward The UK’s first Labour government in the 1920s was undermined by ‘fake news’. The Zinoviev letter, published in the [...]
Read moreAcademic Click-baiting and the Neo-liberal University
John Holmwood In an article on the recent scandal associated with the radical journal, Third World Quarterly, which published a piece [...]
Read moreOn Cheerleading and Political Football: Research and Activism in Trump’s America
Carolyn Chernoff Let’s mix metaphors: some kinds of research are cheerleading, inside baseball, and political footballs all at once. Sports allusions [...]
Read moreWhat happens after a disaster?
John Drury and Selin Tekin Guven One of the things that sometimes happens after a disaster is that the people affected [...]
Read moreI got breast cancer from my dad! How did that happen?
Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Christine Garrington For Stephanie, getting tested for the hereditary breast cancer gene was something of a no-brainer. After [...]
Read moreWelfare as Purgatory: The irrational rationality of activation and sanctions
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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