Rowland Atkinson and Don Mitchell The world feels like it is falling apart, and maybe it really is. Maybe the [...]
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Viewpoint: The New ‘New Right’ – Trump’s Political Earthquake
Desmond King Four decades ago the concurrent Thatcher and Reagan governments heralded the arrival of the ‘New Right’ political agenda, which [...]
Read moreOn The Frontline: The B4RN Project, Delivering Broadband, Delivering Community
Andy Wells Broadband is one of the essential services for most people in the UK but its provision is patchy and, [...]
Read morePolicy and Politics: “I Will Fight for What I Deserve” – Political Struggles for Welfare Rights
Daniel Edmiston and Louise Humpage The Policy and Politics section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal Policy & [...]
Read moreLost hope from a lost land: Ethnographic reflections on the Syrian refugee crisis
Daniel Briggs I walk in, once again, past the young families fanning their newborns in the shade, past the long lunch [...]
Read moreSuicides linked to austerity: from a psychocentric to a psychopolitical autopsy
China Mills On September 7th 2016, on Westminster bridge outside the House of Commons, disabled protestors gathered with banners full of [...]
Read morePoverty, politics and a new kind of class war?
Tracy Shildrick Over recent years poverty has re-emerged as a political and popular topic of conversation in the UK. This is, [...]
Read moreEnglish Nationalism in context
Simon Winlow For the past year or so I’ve been exploring the significant growth of nationalism in the de-industrialised zones of [...]
Read moreLife in America’s Bankrupt Margins
Mark Davidson As we brace to enter the Trump presidency, the impacts of the Great Recession perhaps appear to be less [...]
Read moreOn the housing challenge
Alex Marsh It is not hyperbole to claim that we face a global housing challenge. In both the Global North and [...]
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