Des Fitzgerald ‘One of my most cherished possessions,’ wrote Susah Desmond-Hellman, the Chief Executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [...]
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Category "2017"
VIEWPOINT: Africa’s Colonial Vestige, the CFA Franc
Nicoletta Fagiolo On 19 August 2017, Kemi Seba, a Franco-Beninese Pan-Africanist activist living in Senegal since 2011 and leader of the [...]
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POLICY AND POLITICS: A matter of public knowledge? Inquiring into the Grenfell Tower disaster
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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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