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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...social movement leaders in the U.S. have often been vilified as they pushed progressive, and not so progressive, agendas. Unlikeable, unfeminine and shrill are familiar adjectives. Within the movements, cross-cutting cleavages of age, race, ethnicity, class and political ideology regularly splintered women’s organizing. Whether change can come from joining government...
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Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
History & The Arts

Putting baby in a context: Stephen Lee Naish's Deconstructing Dirty Dancing

...working-class Irish-American dancer at Kellerman’s resort, exposes a great deal about America in the early 1960s and beyond. It is a slim volume of fewer than 70 pages, but the range of information it contains belies its size. Naish is an established writer on film, politics and popular culture, and the subject matter of his third book aptly combines those topics. Naish...
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Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?
Money & Business

Cost-of-living crisis, or just back-to-life blip?

...work incomes are sinking. But after successive stock-market and property booms that mainly benefited the generation now retired, tougher times may loom for those who can’t access the fast-growing Bank of Mum and Dad. Tax bills also inflating Having promised lower-paid workers a rise on its way to re-election in 2019, the government is trying to ensure their pay at least...
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What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...social relations, including oppression and exploitation in the era of high technological innovation. At the same time, it underplayed the ability of sovereign nation states to address these problems through social redistributive policies. Instead, liberal cosmopolitanism uncritically justified economic liberalism that led to dogmatic policies of free trade and...
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After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack
Health, Sports & Psychology

After Manchester: How can you help if you know someone affected by a terror attack

...social support is the single most important factor that protects people from the after effects of trauma. And this social support can be provided by anyone – a partner, family, friends, colleagues or members of the community. Essentially, any caring person can provide a basic level of emotional support. The best support you can provide is to offer a level of human...
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The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...social landscape that is always already political. And that, similarly, the power structures that allow an individual, regardless of their mental health state, to target and kill members of a social minority are the same power structures that have, for centuries, operated to classify, discipline, tame, control and, in some cases, even “heal” the bodies of those who...
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‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem’: supporting someone living with a terminal diagnosis

...Social Care courses and qualifications. ‘Life’s good – it’s the disease that’s the problem.’ These are the words my husband said a lot when he was battling MND. We also used to frequently say ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way’. Indeed, during his illness we did everything we could to keep his spirits up after being told he had six months to two...
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Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics

...in an international context In addition, the interdisciplnary Social Sciences module provides an introduction to social science thinking and research. This article originally included a YouTube video filmed at Climate Camp which has since been removed from the internet; we've removed the link and replaced it with a link to the Flickr collection of images from the event....
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