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THE TYRANNIES OF COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION

By discoversociety
February 15, 2014

Michael O’Regan, Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau We are told we are undergoing a rapid explosion in sharing, bartering, lending, trading, [...]

URBAN LIFE AND MENTAL HEALTH: RE-VISITING POLITICS, SOCIETY AND BIOLOGY

By discoversociety
February 15, 2014

Des Fitzgerald, Nikolas Rose, and Ilina Singh, King’s College London What can biological research contribute to the study of society? What [...]

Moral Panics and Youth Crime – Where are the Girls?

By discoversociety
February 15, 2014

Jackie Turton, Essex University History reveals that moral panics (Cohen, 2011) about hooligans, gangs and uncontrolled youth, focussed attention on young [...]

Poverty fifty years on — but what IS poverty?

By discoversociety
February 15, 2014

John Veit-Wilson, Newcastle University. Listening to government politicians talking about poverty is like hearing 18th century doctors discuss medicine — they [...]