Photo: Walter Baxter - licensed for reuse CC BY-SA 2.0 Brian Castellani (Kent State University) When I attended university in 1984 as [...]
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Viewpoint: An Old Story of Profit, Power and People – Why We Should Fight TTIP
Photo with permission of World Development Movement Luke Martell (University of Sussex) A US president gets in cahoots with corporations and European [...]
Read moreOn the Frontline: Austerity Bites
Mary O’Hara On a bitterly cold day in the winter of 2013 I was sitting with a group of women from [...]
Read morePOLICY BRIEFING: Gender Matters in Research
Di McNeish and Sara Scott (DMSS Research) Recently we have been working on two projects – both fundamentally concerned with gender [...]
Read moreSpeaking Back To Stigma: social housing and solidarity in East London
Photo: Liam Barrington-Bush Tracey Jensen (University of East London) You do not have to travel very far in the Olympic Borough of [...]
Read moreUnsung Heroes of the US Civil Rights Movement – Domestic Servants of the Deep South
Photo: The author Katherine van Wormer (University of Northern Iowa) When I grew up in the Deep South, in New Orleans, the [...]
Read more‘God Only Knows’ what they’ve done to the charity single
Image: Mike Fleming CC-BY-2.0 Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex) Charity singles were the perfect cultural form for Mrs Thatcher’s Eighties. They were [...]
Read moreReproducing class? Classical music education and inequality
Image: The Cello Part for Vaughan Williams' London Symphony Anna Bull (Goldsmiths, University of London) In recent years there has been a [...]
Read moreTerroir today: The taste for the particular and the making of good taste
Image: Jennifer Smith Maguire Jennifer Smith Maguire (University of Leicester) The word ‘terroir’ has considerable clout in the world of fine wine. [...]
Read more“Pro” ana? Sociability and support in eating disorder online communities
Image: Roberto Clemente Paola Tubaro (University of Greenwich) Last June, a group of Italian MPs proposed jail terms and fines for authors [...]
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