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Natalie Welden on the need to understand the environmental impact of fast fashion and short-term clothing.
After decades of intense observation and campaigning by…
On Steve Baker's corporate interests and Brexit negotiations as shock doctrine.
As I crawled through our new Brexit minister’s asbestos-lined maze of corporate…
Global Strategic Engagement: States and Non-State Actors in Global Governance by Raffaele Marchetti. London: Lexington Books, 2016. 210 pp, £52.95 hardcover 978-1-4985-1013-…
Branko Milanovic explores some of our assumptions around the causes of civil wars.
Twenty years ago Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore published a much quoted article entitled…
Sulav Saha explores how different cultures approach risk.
Growing up in Australia as part of a minority made me aware of certain family traits that were different to social norms…
Since Trump's visit to the Middle East, the region is experiencing new forms of turmoil, with the boycott against Qatar by several Gulf countries and Egypt reflecting the…
There is a lot of money to be made from Artificial Intelligence. By one estimate, the market is projected to hit US$36.8 billion by 2025. Some of this money will undoubtedly…
The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle.
When you hear the words…
William H. Saito argues nature may be a role model for efforts for those addressing cyber security challenges.
In the last few weeks, I’ve attended more than my usual number…
Michael McQuarrie explores the dangers for sociologists in today's turbulent times.
Sociology has a Trump problem. And a Brexit problem. And a Populism problem. And a white…
Can women interpret Islamic law? Scholars who think so recently gathered in Indonesia, where fatwas were also issued against child marriage and environmental degradation.
Can…
Since the late 1970s, the world's economy and dominant nations have been marching to the tune of (neoliberal) globalization, whose impact and effects on average people's…
Organized Violence after Civil War: The Geography of Recruitment in Latin America by Sarah Zukerman Daly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 315 pp, £64.99…
Stuart Thompson explores how we should safeguard seeds in the face of climate change.
There is a fearful irony to recent news of flooding at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in…
What China’s Soccer Spending Spree Teaches us about Globalization.
On 4 June 2002, the national football team of the People’s Republic of China took to the field for…