Petula Sik Ying Ho In 2014, the Umbrella Movement and its occupation took 79 days. The anti-extradition movement has now lasted [...]
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Category "2019"
POLICY AND POLITICS: How might lower ranking officials have a greater impact on policy development than previously assumed?
Andrew Connell This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]
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Security and intelligence incursions in academic research: a threat to all of social science
Narzanin Massoumi, David Miller and Tom Mills The Director of CREST was asked to respond to this article. He has replied [...]
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Homophobia in education: Advocacy research and the politics of knowledge
Mark McCormack Sexuality and education are a combustible combination for British media and politics. The recent debates about sex education and [...]
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How Money Myths led to Austerity
Mary Mellor Following the financial crisis of 2007-8 many states saw a spike in public spending that resulted in deficit [...]
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Universal Catastrophe – the ongoing crisis that is Universal Credit and welfare ‘conditionality’
Christian Garland The 40 year project of ‘welfare reform’ or ‘active labour market policies’ that can be viewed as central to [...]
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Stereotypical and (Super)Heroic Representations of Masculinity in Sperm Donation Marketing
Francesca Sobande A broad range of studies have explored how commercial businesses use images and ideas concerning gender identities and roles [...]
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Breaking the Cycle: Media Representations of Victim-Survivors and Child Abuse
Amy Beddows Discussions around media representations of sexual violence and abuse have become both more mainstream and more nuanced in recent [...]
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Expatriate or migrant? The racialised politics of migration categories and the ‘space in-between’
Sarah Kunz “Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?” Mawuna Koutonin asked provocatively in a 2015 [...]
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Imagined Futures of Consumption: Lay Expectations and Speculations
Daniel Welch and Ulrike Ehgartner Imagined futures of consumption have played a central role politically and economically since the end of [...]
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