Robert Moore with a response by Hannah Jones In this issue of Discover Society a number of authors address issues of [...]
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Category "Issue 27"
Viewpoint: Venturing Beyond Critique to Practice and Back Again
Victoria Armstrong, Laura Fenton, Katy McEwan, Robert MacDonald, Kirsty Morrin, and Jon Rainford “Thinking means venturing beyond” (Bloch, 1986: 4) [...]
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Policy Briefing: The Nudge Business
Geof Rayner “Engineering shifts in social norms is a far from trivial task." (Mind, Society and Behavior: World Development Report 2015. [...]
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On the Frontline: Migrant Roma in Europe – Eternal Outsiders
Daniela Sime As Europe’s largest ethnic minority, the estimated 12 million Roma (or Romany) people have experienced few benefits from the [...]
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Blind Pessimism and the Sociology of Hope
Les Back Our commitment to social criticism means that the tone of sociological writing is often in a despairing or hopeless [...]
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Telling Human Stories
Laurie Taylor I still remember the first seminar in sociology that I ever took at York University. Although I was [...]
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South Africa’s Student Spring? Hashtag generation revives spirit of 1976 in fight for access to education
Mehita Iqani Often lambasted for their supposed political indifference, labeled by their parents as apathetic, lost, or shamefully materialistic, South [...]
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The Violence of Liberalspeak: Eulogizing Cecil Rhodes, the ‘Businessman’ and ‘Munificent Benefactor’
Dalia Gebrial and Chi Chi Shi We are living in a global moment of anti-racist student resistance. From Missouri to South [...]
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From mainstream politics to social movements: Greece in between austerity and hope.
Spyros Themelis For ordinary Greeks, living in extreme austerity leaves little room for optimism. After six years of brutal sacrifices, hope [...]
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Moral Economies of Debt in the Greek Financial Crisis
Johnna Montgomerie As the Greek crisis unfolds it exposes key sites of financial power within contemporary capitalism. In particular the role [...]
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