Danny Dorling “It was the Conservatives who first protected working people in the mills; it was the Conservatives who took a [...]
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Focus: Decoding the ISIS brand
Neil Serougi The rise of Islamic State has been graphically thrust into our lives through a visual cruelty cleverly wired into [...]
Read moreFOCUS: SOCIETY – A PARTIAL ECLIPSE
Jeremy Seabrook In the mid-to-late twentieth century, with the passing of the era of industrial manufacture in Britain, the ‘social change’ [...]
Read moreFocus: The Emerging Contours of Data Science
William Housley, (Cardiff University) Revolution is everywhere, in everything. It is infinite. There is no final revolution, no final number. The [...]
Read moreFocus: Islamophobia and Contemporary ‘Europe’
Nasar Meer (Strathclyde University) and Christina Spaeti (Freiburg University) One of the earliest references to ‘Europe’ comes from a Greek myth [...]
Read moreFOCUS: Questioning memory nationalism
Christian Karner (University of Nottingham) Writing in the Wall Street Journal on 26 June 2014, two days before a series of [...]
Read moreFocus: Hard Times for Youth?
Tracy Shildrick (University of Leeds), Robert MacDonald (Teesside University) and Lorenza Antonucci (UWS) Precarious work, underemployment and an increased risk of [...]
Read moreFocus: Whither the Two Party System?
John Curtice (University of Strathclyde/ NatCen Social Research) It is not so long ago that Britain was regarded as a model [...]
Read moreFocus: ‘Here be dragons!’ Reclaiming the romance of research on the margins
Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (University of Bournmouth) Recently I was asked to contribute to an edited book on research in Borneo, which [...]
Read moreFocus: Migration and Election 2015
Suzanne Hall (London School of Economics and Political Science) This special issue of Discover Society, edited by Suzi Hall, focuses on [...]
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