Gurminder K. Bhambra On the day before the referendum on our continued membership of the European Union, I was wondering about [...]
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Category "2016"
ON THE FRONTLINE: Why we need to listen to the people experiencing foodbank Britain
Kayleigh Garthwaite My new book, Hunger Pains: life inside foodbank Britain, chronicles my time as a volunteer and a researcher [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: Northern Ireland – where is the peace dividend?
Colin Knox The Policy Briefing section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & Politics. The section is curated by [...]
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Welfare Poison: Why everything you believed about the politics of nature-nurture may no longer be true
Maurizio Meloni In 1910 the British eugenics movement was shaken by a violent debate on the long-term effects of alcoholism. A [...]
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‘Mental capital’, neuroscience and early intervention
Hilary Rose and Steven Rose In 2008, on the very cusp of the banking crash, the Labour government published a Foresight [...]
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Epigenetics, Rats and Foetal Programming: Making the “Good Enough” 21st Century Mother
David Wastell and Sue White The newly burgeoning field of epigenetics examines mechanisms which modify gene expression, mediating the interaction of [...]
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Collecting Data about Disadvantaged Families – Preoccupations & Possibilities
Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies and Nicola Horsley Families have long been regarded as signalling and determining the state of nation, so [...]
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Prostitution in the UK Today: Radical Feminism and the Marginalisation of Sex Workers’ Voices
Tim Davies Consider this scenario. You are involved, by choice or through force of circumstance – or, more likely, because of [...]
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Skin ‘Graft’: the politics of beauty
Steve Garner and Somia Bibi Skin-lightening is a multibillion dollar industry that reinforces racialized inequality for profit. Beginning with a British [...]
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Living Wages: Recurring problems of ethical fashion in Sri Lanka?
Annelies Goger and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura When Beyoncé and U.K. fast fashion retailer Topshop made a decision to source her new [...]
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