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...changing city Since the early 1980s, Liverpool has been undergoing economic, physical, social, political, reputational and cultural regeneration. These processes have picked up pace since 2003, when Liverpool was announced as the 2008 European Capital of Culture. This accolade proved to be the catalyst for a range of initiatives to “clean up” the city, ready for its...

...change the meaning of words, selectively amplifying some meanings and discarding others. Theresa Mays’ pronouncement ‘if you are a citizen of the world you are a citizen of nowhere’ neatly reasserts the necessity of national belonging, shoring up ‘common-sense’ meanings and disrupting citizenship as a discursive resource for strategies of resistance and dissent....

...changes in the home. Presenter Laurie Taylor took a number of academics, including Open University sociologists Rachel Thompson and Jacqui Gabb, into diverse homes around the country. They spoke to an extended family, a person who lived alone, and a nuclear family. I reflected, at the time, on some of the implications of these recent societal shifts for our thinking about...

...change? ...What is a ‘person’ in law? The concept of a legal ‘person’ goes back to ancient Roman law. Only entities recognised by the law as a ‘person’ are considered legal actors. In other words, only a ‘person’ can sue or be sued, enter into contracts or own property. All living human beings are recognised by the law as persons, although personhood only...