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Discover Society is an online magazine of social research, policy analysis, and commentary. It is an independent and not-for-profit venture.

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7 Jun 2023
Taxation: Who Pays? Who Benefits? The different articles examine the relationship between who pays & who benefits in the context of broader histories of the state ... w/ @alexcobham @MikeSav47032563 @Laura__Clancy @KarenRowlingson @JohnCNarayan discoversociety.org/
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We are very pleased to publish a series of articles, remembering Ranajit Guha, the Indian historian, scholar and founding spirit of ‘subaltern studies’ ... discoversociety.org/2024/01/…
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#ICYMI Policy and Politics: To tackle low pay, policymakers must think about sectors archive.discoversociety.org/…
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#ICYMI Corporate sabotage and the future of the BBC archive.discoversociety.org/…

Corporate sabotage and the future of the BBC

Tom Mills (University of Bath) The figure of Rupert Murdoch looms large in defences of the BBC, and whilst we should not imagine that the recurrent political wrangles over British broadcasting can …

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#ICYMI FAST FORWARD: ONLINE TEACHING AND THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION POST-PANDEMIC, PART II archive.discoversociety.org/…
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#ICYMI Sociology for Optimists archive.discoversociety.org/…

Sociology for Optimists

Mary Holmes Not many people I know would rate 2016 as amongst their favourite years. The idea that Britain would stay in the EU and Hilary Clinton would be the next President of the United States, …

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#ICYMI Every day can be Ed Balls Day in UK politics fandom archive.discoversociety.org/…

Every day can be Ed Balls Day in UK politics fandom

Penny Andrews  Just over a week ago, Ed Balls followed me on Twitter and I screenshotted the moment, giddy as a kipper. We had spoken earlier about the humanisation of politicians. On the same day,…

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#ICYMI ‘Working’ For Your Laughter: The Rise of the British Comedy Snob archive.discoversociety.org/…

‘Working’ For Your Laughter: The Rise of the British Comedy Snob

Sam Friedman, City University London                   [pdf] ‘Culture attracts snobs’, opined the Daily Telegraph’s Guy Stagg in August 2011. ‘But the worst snobs are found in comedy… An entire roo…

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#ICYMI On the Frontline. Crude Power in Thailand’s 2014 Coup: Old Soldiers Almost Die archive.discoversociety.org/…

On the Frontline. Crude Power in Thailand’s 2014 Coup: Old Soldiers Almost Die

The author is an academic based in Thailand who writes anonymously because of the crackdown on academic freedom. See letter by UK academics and others in support of colleagues in Thailand.         …

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#ICYMI Expatriate or migrant? The racialised politics of migration categories and the ‘space in-between’ archive.discoversociety.org/…

Expatriate or migrant? The racialised politics of migration categories and the ‘space in-between’

Sarah Kunz “Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?” Mawuna Koutonin asked provocatively in a 2015 blogpost reprinted by The Guardian. Widely shared on social media, the art…

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#ICYMI Children of the financial crisis archive.discoversociety.org/…

Children of the financial crisis

Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss  What does the recent financial crisis look like through the eyes of children in the intimate spaces of everyday life? Over the l…

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#ICYMI Policy and Politics: Why care for the terminally ill needs to be a higher priority archive.discoversociety.org/…

Policy and Politics: Why care for the terminally ill needs to be a higher priority

Richard Meade When somebody becomes terminally ill and begins to approach the end of their life, they are likely to need various forms of care and help. They may also have aspirations and hopes for…

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#ICYMI It could happen here archive.discoversociety.org/…
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#ICYMI From Hammersmith to Newham: Austerity, local authority debt & financial markets archive.discoversociety.org/…
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#ICYMI Body-Worn Cameras: A Litmus Test for the Democratic Habitus of Policing archive.discoversociety.org/…

Body-Worn Cameras: A Litmus Test for the Democratic Habitus of Policing

Baris Cayli Jordan Edwards, a 15-year-old African-American, was fatally shot by police officer, Roy Oliver, in Balch Springs, Texas on 29 April, 2017. The officer’s initial statement was found not …

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#ICYMI A country called Europe? A cartographic story of a continent united in diversity archive.discoversociety.org/…

A country called Europe? A cartographic story of a continent united in diversity

Dimitris Ballas (University of Sheffield), Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Benjamin Hennig (University of Oxford)   “… we must re-create the European family in a regional structure, call…

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#ICYMI Covid-19 and the new geography of the everyday world archive.discoversociety.org/…

Covid-19 and the new geography of the everyday world

Lisa Arai The emergence of the novel coronavirus strain, Covid-19, has been understood primarily as a medical and public health phenomenon, but it is also a geographic one. Measures to suppress the…

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#ICYMI “A Breakdown in Society”: Spontaneous and Organised Resistance archive.discoversociety.org/…

“A Breakdown in Society”: Spontaneous and Organised Resistance

Adam Elliott-Cooper For the campaigns and uprisings against street fascism and state racism in Southall (west London) in the 1970s, the killings of Gurdip Singh Chaggar and Blair Peach were moments…

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#ICYMI Love Brighton, hate racism: Different understandings of ‘diversity’ archive.discoversociety.org/…

Love Brighton, hate racism: Different understandings of ‘diversity’

Caterina Mazzilli Cities have what geographer Doreen Massey (1991) defines as “a character of their own”: a set of physical and intangible characteristics that make each place unique.  Yet, what we…

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#ICYMI FOCUS: Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias archive.discoversociety.org/…

FOCUS: Colonial Debts, Imperial Insolvencies, Extractive Nostalgias

Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie This special section of Discover Society emerges from a two-day gathering of scholars, activists and artists dedicated to the theme at G…

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#ICYMI Seriousness in Women’s Roller Derby archive.discoversociety.org/…

Seriousness in Women’s Roller Derby

Maddie Breeze ‘Seriousness’ is a commonplace word. Many people are used to hearing appeals to ‘be serious’, to take a particular issue seriously. It is easy to take the meaning of seriousness for g…

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