Raoul Walawalker Enclosed within chained-linked fencing topped with barbed wire, the UK government has created its first ‘migrant camps’ at two [...]
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FOCUS: Coronavirus and vaccination – (bio)power, (bio)governance or (bio)civility?
Geof Rayner The Coronavirus pandemic – the global spread of a tiny non-living protein particle with some RNA inside - has [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Re-examining integration through the study of narrative, personal experience and the everyday
Umut Korkut, Doga Atalay and Marcus Nicolson The recent media footage of migrants trying desperately to cross the English Channel in [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Artistic and Intellectual Hospitality
Yasmin Gunaratnam and Fataneh Farahani As we write in July 2020, our everyday lives have been shaken by the mimetic entwining [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Accounting for British History
Gurminder K Bhambra British history did not happen only in Britain. Indeed, Britain, itself, only came into being in 1707 with [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Interrogating a ‘Woman’s Curse’ – What Endometriosis Tells Us About Politics and Society
Tendayi Bloom, Charlotte Galpin and Annalise Weckesser The symptoms associated with endometriosis, particularly excessively painful and/or heavy periods, are often dismissed [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Doing Gender & Racial Justice After Sexual Violence – The Case of Kobe Bryant
Lisa Kalayji On 26th January, 2020, Kobe Bryant, the storied American basketball player, was killed in a helicopter crash in the [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Who cares? Urban youth and the right to the city
Agata Lisiak and Elena Vacchelli Greta Thunberg may be the world’s most recognisable teenager. Over the past couple of years the [...]
Read moreFOCUS: The ethics of impact when researching ‘terrorism’
Tom Mills, Narzanin Massoumi and David Miller The attacks of 9/11 still casts a long shadow over foreign and domestic [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies: times of change and hot debates
Anália Torres This issue of Discover Society, curated by Anália Torres and Clara Oliveira, gathers 13 papers that came out of [...]
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