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Focus: ‘Here be dragons!’ Reclaiming the romance of research on the margins

By discoversociety
March 01, 2015

Sara Ashencaen Crabtree (University of Bournmouth) Recently I was asked to contribute to an edited book on research in Borneo, which [...]

Viewpoint: The Use and Abuse of History, From Mississippi to Ferguson

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March 01, 2015

Charles M. Payne (University of Chicago) It was inevitable that the demonstrations following police killings around the country would draw constant [...]

Policy Briefing: Citizenship, engagement and online civic conversations

By discoversociety
March 01, 2015

Nick Ellison (University of York) Research into the use of social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) by English local authorities undertaken [...]

The changing shape of sharing: digital materiality and moral economies

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March 01, 2015

Jörgen Skågeby (Stockholm University) The digital is expanding. More and more of our virtual world (e.g. emotions, sentiments, ideas, fears, beliefs, [...]

Delhi election verdict and the political economy of ‘reforms’

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March 01, 2015

Prakash Kashwan (University of Connecticut) The results of the recently concluded Delhi state assembly elections have been referred to as a [...]

Happy and you know it? Understanding people’s experiences and perceptions of happiness

By discoversociety
March 01, 2015

Laura Hyman (University of Portsmouth) Contemporary British and Western societies seem to have become increasingly preoccupied with happiness recently. Words and [...]

Apocalypse when? (Not) thinking and talking about climate change

By discoversociety
March 01, 2015

Matthew Adams (University of Brighton) Released in the autumn of 2014, the final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s [...]

Not just Black and White? : Choosing the ethnicity of donor sperm amongst lesbian couples

By discoversociety
March 01, 2015

Laura Griffith (University of Birmingham) and Annalise Weckesser (Birmingham City University) It has been widely reported that Jennifer Cramblett from Ohio [...]