Steven Parfitt Members gathered together in a circle to welcome the new recruits. The Worthy Foreman and the Venerable Sage took [...]
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VIEWPOINT: There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack @ Thirty
Les Back Paul Gilroy’s book There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation published [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Experiential Politics – Yellow Vests as “The People”
Michalis Lianos Interviewing people near the Arc de Triomphe amidst teargas and stun grenades is a great experience for a social [...]
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Policy and Politics: Evidence-Based Policy – Older than Advertised and Weaker than We Could Wish
Richard D. French This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated [...]
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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 [...]
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Resistance 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 [...]
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How 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 [...]
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Populism 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 [...]
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‘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 [...]
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Prague 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 [...]
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