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Turbulent state: Grasping the underbelly of Sri Lanka’s political crisis
Benjamin Brown, V. Kajotha, Loritta Chan, and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura After more than fifty days of protracted crisis, a semblance of [...]
Read moreResistance is the Pulse of the World’s Largest Democracy
Alf Gunvald Nilsen Almost five years have passed since the Indian general election of 2014, which saw Narendra Modi and the [...]
Read moreHow politicians respond to climate change
Rebecca Willis The latest summary of climate science, revealed in the recent report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]
Read morePopulism and perceived threats of immigration
Sonia Stefanizzi and Giancarlo Manzi Those against immigration often argue that “immigration is bad for safety” or “immigration means more [...]
Read more‘When I got the call to go home, well that’s me’: Identity, Entrepreneurship and Māori Sovereignty
Thomas O’Brien The rights of the Māori community in Aotearoa New Zealand have long been an area of contention and political [...]
Read morePrague Spring controversial even 50 years on
Marek Skovajsa A recent English-language issue of the Czech SociologicalReview/ Sociologický časopis (2018, 54 ) features a symposium, Remembering Prague Spring [...]
Read moreBody-Worn Cameras: A Litmus Test for the Democratic Habitus of Policing
Baris Cayli Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old African-American, was fatally shot by police officer, Roy Oliver, in Balch Springs, Texas on 29 [...]
Read morePervasive Punishment: Making sense of ‘mass supervision’
Fergus McNeill Twenty-four-year-old Lavinia Woodward was an unusual offender. Privileged and/or talented enough to win a place to study medicine at [...]
Read moreChanging the meritocracy debate: what has merit?
Helen Goulden Meritocracy, on the face of it, would initially seem to be one of the least worst ways of formulating [...]
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