Joann Wilkinson and Jeremy Davies If you were looking to live in the most gender-equal country in the world, you wouldn’t [...]
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Viewpoints on topics in the news.
VIEWPOINT: Class and Culture in Elitist Britain
Gary Hall Elitist Britain, a June 2019 report from the Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission, found that two fifths (39%) [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Lost in Media: Migrant Perspectives and the Public Sphere.
Ismail Einashe, Sara de Jong, Simon Parker and Daniel Trilling While 'migrants have entered European countries, they haven’t entered [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: The politics of rights and representation – how CNN reported on Ghanaian ‘child slaves’ who were not enslaved
Samuel Okyere, Kwame Agyemang and Betty Mensah On March 1 2019, CNN aired a video titled, Freeing the child slaves of Lake [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Can the Prevent Review avoid the Trap of Policy-led Evidence?
Rob Faure Walker The power structures inherent in fallacious justifications for counter-extremism are liable to generate skewed evidence for the forthcoming [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Now that Grime is “Pop”, When Will the Panic about Drill Music Stop?
Lambros Fatsis Grime was once Britain’s notorious “problem genre”, making headline news and arousing the suspicion of Scotland Yard and Downing [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Am I an Asian Woman or a Woman Who is Asian?
Shan-Jan Sarah Liu In 2007, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, published an article, “Am I a Black Woman or a Woman Who is [...]
Read moreViewpoint: The Danish Welfare State – Securing the middle classes, leaving the poor behind
Peter Abrahamson Welfare state development in Denmark is paradoxical: we have experienced a continuous penalizing of marginalised people through a reduction [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Assembling the super-fast, ultra-smart, semi-automatic university
Ben Williamson Universities have become major centres of data collection, calculation and consumption. Some commentators envision a ‘smart university’ where data [...]
Read moreVIEWPOINT: Apna – One of our own
Sita Balani Before there is solidarity – a strategic political choice, an action that creates or expresses affinity – there [...]
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