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Jörgen Skågeby (Stockholm University) The digital is expanding. More and more of our virtual world (e.g. emotions, sentiments, ideas, fears, beliefs, [...]

Prakash Kashwan (University of Connecticut) The results of the recently concluded Delhi state assembly elections have been referred to as a [...]

Laura Hyman (University of Portsmouth) Contemporary British and Western societies seem to have become increasingly preoccupied with happiness recently. Words and [...]

Matthew Adams (University of Brighton) Released in the autumn of 2014, the final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s [...]

Laura Griffith (University of Birmingham) and Annalise Weckesser (Birmingham City University) It has been widely reported that Jennifer Cramblett from Ohio [...]

Edmund Coleman-Fountain (University of York) Ten years ago whilst planning a PhD, I settled on the meaning of equality for lesbian [...]

Karim Murji (Open University) The philosopher Joshua Glasgow once wrote that, ‘When I first mention to civilian friends and students that [...]

Emily Wykes (University of Nottingham) “With a name like Patel, and her ethnic background, she won’t be working anywhere important where [...]

Dávid Kaposi (The Open University) “The conflation of Israel with Jews raises thorny questions of when political views cross into bigotry”, [...]

David Miller and Tom Mills (University of Bath) When Tarik Kafala, the head of BBC Arabic, advised staff not to use [...]