David Mitchell When I was six, my family moved from Protestant, suburban Belfast to Sligo on the west coast of [...]
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Category "2017"
When People Become Food
Dina Khapaeva The recent CNN video featuring Reza Aslan eating human brain and drinking from a human skull at a [...]
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Researching dirt and dirty work
Lotika Singha One fine summer evening, a friend and I were walking by a farm. My friend held her breath to [...]
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English national identity, resentment and the Leave vote
Robin Mann and Steve Fenton The results of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom came just in time to add [...]
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Après Brexit, le déluge?
Katie Blood If the Brexit vote shook up Britain like a snow globe, a return to a stable and sedate settlement, [...]
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Old Problem, New Lexicon: The EU Workplace Headscarf Ban
Saba Hussain and Nazia Hussein Recently the media across Europe has reported the legalisation of a workplace headscarf ban by the [...]
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Rethinking the ‘Crisis’ in ‘Troubled Families’: Relationships and the ethics of care
Sue Bond-Taylor It looked for a while like October 2016 may have heralded the end for the Troubled Families Programme (TFP). [...]
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Industrial strategy must foster new sectors, not save existing ones
Phil Mullan Many commentators have been critical of the UK Government’s recent Green Paper ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’ (January 2017) for [...]
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Reframing child welfare inequalities: making sense with research and changing the conversation
Will Mason and Brid Featherstone For the past three years, during undergraduate seminars, I have asked sociology students how they [...]
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FOCUS: Families and Relationships across Crises
Sara de Jong and Jacqui Gabb David Cameron’s plans to fix a “broken society” , by putting families first, gave prominence [...]
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