Tracy Shildrick Over recent years poverty has re-emerged as a political and popular topic of conversation in the UK. This is, [...]
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English Nationalism in context
Simon Winlow For the past year or so I’ve been exploring the significant growth of nationalism in the de-industrialised zones of [...]
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Life in America’s Bankrupt Margins
Mark Davidson As we brace to enter the Trump presidency, the impacts of the Great Recession perhaps appear to be less [...]
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On the housing challenge
Alex Marsh It is not hyperbole to claim that we face a global housing challenge. In both the Global North and [...]
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Asking Abramovich for a cup of sugar: Social glue, the super-rich and the rest of us
Rowland Atkinson The idea of social unity has had an important influence on much political thinking – such social cohesion lies [...]
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From Powell to Casey: the Mythical White Working Class
Shirin Hirsch Is the working class purely White? You could be forgiven for thinking so after reading the Casey review. In [...]
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Brexit as a Backlash against ‘Loss of Privilege’ and Multiculturalism
Ipek Demir Concerns about migration have been at the forefront of debates on Brexit but are also evident in the language [...]
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How Preventing Terror is Promoting Violence
Rob Faure Walker In 2014 the Muslim students in my classes stopped engaging in political debate. I am a secondary school [...]
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Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017)
Mark Davis Zygmunt Bauman. What does the name mean to you? Chances are the name means ‘inspiration’, ‘imagination’, perhaps ‘perspiration’, such is the [...]
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Social Science & Social Futures: Fast Scholarship, Emerging Technologies & the Future of Inquiry
Mark Carrigan and Will Housley Distributed networked technologies have transformed communication, produced new forms of ‘data’ and have had a significant [...]
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