Desmond King Campaigning against the Leave case in 2016, the then Home Secretary Theresa May confirmed her assessment that a decision [...]
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FOCUS: Brexit and rethinking the British in Europe
Michaela Benson From the referendum to the negotiations to leave, Freedom of Movement has featured prominently in Brexit. Popular framings of [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Why the Knights of Labor Still Matter
Steven Parfitt Members gathered together in a circle to welcome the new recruits. The Worthy Foreman and the Venerable Sage took [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Brexit, Propaganda and Empire
Muneeb Hafiz The Supermarine Spitfire was unveiled to the British public on Saturday 27th June, 1936 at the RAF-Hendon air-display. Full-scale [...]
Read moreFocus: Why social movements matter
Laurence Cox These are terrifying times to live in. Scientists and extreme weather alike underline how little time we have left [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Merit and Meritocracy
Anselma Gallinat, Lisa Garforth and Geoff Payne 2018 marks the 60th anniversary of Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy, which [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias
Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie This special section of Discover Society emerges from a two-day gathering of [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Narrating Policy – Potentials of narrative methods and theories in extending and re-orientating policy research
James Beresford and Ashley Bullard ‘Narrative’ has become a growing field of interest in social science and an increasingly deployed analytical [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Understanding Consensual Non-Monogamy
Ryan Scoats Consensual non-monogamy has a long history, and in recent years has received increasing media exposure. However, many myths [...]
Read moreFOCUS: The ‘where’ of Prevent
Shereen Fernandez, Rob Faure Walker and Tarek Younis In 2015, the Prevent Duty was made statutory in public institutions across the [...]
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