Linsey McGoey (University of Essex) Since the morning of July 13, when Alexis Tsipras emerged from 17 hours of negotiations blinking [...]
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The Protestant Ethic and the Language of Austerity
Michael Shea For almost a decade the political discourse in the UK and beyond has been dominated by the rhetoric of [...]
Read morePrudish and ‘Past It’? Older Care Home Residents Sexuality and Intimacy
Paul Simpson (Edge Hill University) Sex and intimacy are, apparently, for the young. Birthday cards mock ageing and associate it [...]
Read moreThe Full Monty? Women Customers’ Experiences at a Male Strip Show
Katy Pilcher (Aston University) As the lights dim there is a brief hush. The glass clinking and chatting subdues in the [...]
Read moreIslamophobic Hate Crimes: numbers, harm, pain and suffering
Chris Allen (Birmingham University) Ten years ago, Kenan Malik invited me to take part in a provocatively titled Channel 4 documentary, [...]
Read moreIslamophobia Goes Viral: Hate Crimes on the Internet
Imran Awan (Birmingham City University) Islamophobia is often viewed within the space of street-level violence perpetrated against Muslim communities. However, in [...]
Read more“We Fear for our Lives”: Offline and Online Experiences of Anti-Muslim Hostility
Irene Zempi (Nottingham Trent University) and Imran Awan (Birmingham City University) Following the terrorist attacks in Paris and Tunisia in 2015, [...]
Read moreReligious Exoticism
Véronique Altglas (Queen’s University Belfast) Why is it that Europeans and North Americans are so fascinated by the ‘religion of others’, [...]
Read moreCare leavers – hitting the target and missing the point
Jameel Hadi (University of Salford) Increasing numbers of children are being taken into care at the same time as outcomes for those [...]
Read moreThe Impact of Affluence on Adolescence
Megan Dottermusch (North Western University) Family life is very different from how it was 65 years ago. Modern times have produced [...]
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