Agata Lisiak and Elena Vacchelli Greta Thunberg may be the world’s most recognisable teenager. Over the past couple of years the [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Queering urban justice – From transitional objects to intergenerational care
Image Credit: A still from the short film Marvellous Grounds (directed by Min Sook Lee, featuring ILL NANA/DiverCity Dance Company). Jin [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Walking While Cut in Half
Karam Alhamad Walking instructions (1) I am not a "refugee" in Berlin. I have left my refugee ID card in Istanbul, that [...]
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Policy and Politics: Does it matter if politicians know what they are doing
Anne Grødem and Jon M. Hippe This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It [...]
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‘It’s not like that anymore’: young men searching for work in the service economy
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 [...]
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‘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 [...]
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Fighting 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 [...]
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Being 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 [...]
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The 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 [...]
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