Linda McDowell Twenty years ago, when my son was a teenager, working in the sort of casual jobs typically filled by [...]
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‘A good city is like a good party’, but not everyone is invited
Marguerite van den Berg and Danielle Chevalier In an attempt to successfully compete and prosper in the new economic era, the [...]
Read more‘When you cross over that invisible boundary’: exploring drug taking in the caring dancefloor
Giulia Federica Zampini and Eveleigh Buck-Matthews Dancefloors are sites rife with narratives. Young people congregate in clubs, pubs, raves, and muddy [...]
Read moreFighting for the right to fight: a report from a boxing club in Berlin
Linos Bitterling Besides texts based on academic research, the guest editors of this special issue of Discover Society found it important [...]
Read moreBeing young in an uncaring city: the personal and the political in the lives of South Africa’s urban young people
Thea Shahrokh and Joanna Wheeler Being young in Cape Town in the context of townships and informal settlements means navigating a [...]
Read moreThe weight of feelings: Khartoum’s revolutionary moment
Image Credit: A sit-in in Khartoum. Photo by Zaher Omareen Sara Abbas In December 2018, Sudan was gripped by revolution. The [...]
Read more‘Chai-activism’: reclaiming rights to the city one cup of tea at a time
Naaz Rashid During a recent trip to Bangladesh, a student from the University of Dhaka was raped close to where I [...]
Read moreYoung and obese: how will you manage physically in middle age and beyond?
Snehal Pinto Pereira and Nina Rogers Being obese isn’t good for us - that much we know. Among other things, if [...]
Read moreTurning the Gaze upon Power: Refusal as research in/to and against the EU border regime
Aila Spathopoulou and Isabel Meier When Mira arrived in Berlin in 2015 to apply for asylum, and saw how bad the [...]
Read moreRitualizing Dissent: Critical Voices as Normalized Bureaucratic Processes in Military and Intelligence Agencies
David Price and Roberto J. González For two decades we have critically studied various roles played by social scientists working for [...]
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