Matt Adams ‘The environmental challenges that confront society are unprecedented and staggering in their scope, pace and complexity. Unless we reframe [...]
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Apocalypse when? (Not) thinking and talking about climate change
Matthew Adams (University of Brighton) Released in the autumn of 2014, the final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s [...]
Read moreVictims, saviours or villains? Children in popular climate imaginaries
Catherine Walker Fifteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg pulls no punches in calling out the world’s leaders on their inaction on climate [...]
Read morePolicy & Politics: The Rise of the Nudge Expert
Joram Feitsma This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]
Read moreThe two-child limit for benefits – a move away from a ‘needs based’ system
Richard Machin Over the last seven years the UK benefits system has undergone the most significant transformation since the inception of [...]
Read moreFocus: Food and Eating
Alan Warde and Luke Yates In this edition of Discover Society, Alan Warde and Luke Yates bring together research reports and [...]
Read moreFood, families and work: Children’s changing food practices in the context of parental employment
Rebecca O’Connell and Julia Brannen Children’s food is at the centre of global concerns about nutritional inequalities and rising obesity. In [...]
Read moreEpigenetics, Rats and Foetal Programming: Making the “Good Enough” 21st Century Mother
David Wastell and Sue White The newly burgeoning field of epigenetics examines mechanisms which modify gene expression, mediating the interaction of [...]
Read moreFOCUS: New Directions in Sustainable Consumption
This special issue focuses on sustainable consumption. We consume resources as part of the practices that make up everyday life—showering, [...]
Read moreON THE FRONTLINE: Good Communications
Steve Connor Over the course of the last decade the world of marketing, design and public relations has seen a [...]
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