Sam Wren-Lewis Since the election result all the way back in 2019, you’ve probably read a handful of “Why did that [...]
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Focus: Why do people put up with inequality?
Wendy Bottero Why do people—even the most disadvantaged—so often put up with inequality and subordination? Social analysts have often been troubled [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Speaking Up, Not Talking Down
Simon Parker and Sara de Jong “Go on look at me. What do you see? Maybe I am a refugee [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Class, Race, Brexit
Michaela Benson It has been over three years since Britain’s referendum on their membership of the European Union. In the [...]
Read moreFOCUS: An Independent Review of the Prevent Strategy
John Holmwood and Therese O’Toole The immediate context of this special issue of Discover Society is the Independent Review of the [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Feeding The Risk Society: Factory Farming And The Intensification Of Risk
Richie Nimmo The world faces unprecedented challenges in the coming decades, arising from the conjunction of the climate crisis, collapsing biodiversity, [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Inequalities in the Academy: Cogs in search of a new wheel
Sue Scott Four of the papers in this issue of Discover Society arose out of a day conference that I organised, [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Digital transgression and the changing nature of crime
Jakob Demant, Silje A. Bakken, Sidsel K. Harder, and Kathrine Elmose Societies have changed and so has the nature of crime. [...]
Read moreFOCUS: The Platform University
Mark Carrigan In recent years, the term ‘platform’ has become ubiquitous, taken up by both business gurus and critical social scientists [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Southall – Political Solidarity and the Creation of Community
Gurminder K Bhambra 23 April 2019 marks the fortieth anniversary of the protests in Southall against the racist and fascist violence [...]
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