John Holmwood, Gurminder K. Bhambra and Sue Scott This special issue of Discover Society represents a new initiative. We present articles [...]
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FOCUS: Reproductive (In)justice – Revisiting Shulamith Firestone in the Era of Trump
Victoria Margree ‘I can’t believe I still have to protest this fucking shit’, proclaims the placard born by an older woman [...]
Read moreFocus: Postsocialism and whiteness – why the Yugoslav region was never outside ‘race’
Catherine Baker Race has worked its way into national identities around the globe except, as most studies of postsocialist Europe until [...]
Read moreFocus: A moment for dying and death?
David Clark This special issue of Discover Society on Death and Dying is guest curated by David Clark. Over 20 years ago, [...]
Read moreFOCUS: The Groundhog Opens an Eye – Brexit, 18 months and counting
William Outhwaite This special issue of Discover Society, curated by William Outhwaite, welcomes the new year of Brexit negotiations with views [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Liberal anxiety and the education of Muslim children, a tale of two schools
John Holmwood This article discusses two schools in Birmingham, both of which have been subject to intense political discussion and media [...]
Read moreFocus: The State of Families and Relationships
Mary Holmes, Lynn Jamieson and Alison Koslowski Jane Austen’s most famous novel begins with the sentence: ‘It is a truth universally [...]
Read moreFOCUS: The biopolitics of ‘post-truth’
Des Fitzgerald ‘One of my most cherished possessions,’ wrote Susah Desmond-Hellman, the Chief Executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [...]
Read moreFOCUS: A Critical Understanding of Statelessness
Tendayi Bloom There are stateless persons living in every region of the world. The lack of any recognised formal citizenship can [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Duterte and Penal Populism – The Hypermasculinity of Crime Control in the Philippines
Filomin Gutierrez The first anniversary of Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippine Presidency was on the 30th of June, as his controversial war on [...]
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