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Revolutions of the Sixties
History & The Arts

Revolutions of the Sixties

...economics and technology. In A Spiritual Revolution?: Wicca and religious change in the 1960s, you’ll consider whether religious change in the Sixties can be considered as a spiritual revolution. You’ll explore how traditional religion was challenged, and how new religions such as Wicca (a form of modern Paganism) emerged from an age where sexual norms, gender roles...
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Understanding Cities
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding Cities

...economic environments. Encounter or Containment? The city as a non-corporate entity - the political possibilities inherent in city spaces. The city can be a politically strategic space, and how otherwise powerless groups can gain attention. Unruliness and cities The relationship of order and disorder in the city, and the intensification of social relationships in cities....
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Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Diverse Perspectives on Mental Health

...economic and political factors shape and constrain our understandings and experiences of mental health and distress. It explores the wide range of diverse and frequently competing perspectives that characterise the world of mental health and looks at the impact of these perspectives on mental health practice and service provision. In a set of academic perspectives,...
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International Development: microcredit and migration
Science, Maths & Technology

International Development: microcredit and migration

...economic collapse has led to people taking matters into their own hands by creating an alternative social exchange currency. Migrant communities, such as Greek Cypriots and Ethiopians in London, and Sierra Leoneans in Liverpool, have a chance to reveal the issues they’ve faced; while in the audio tracks we hear from experts who are working to expand the contribution...
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Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?
Society, Politics & Law

Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?

...economic situation in the country, after having made grandiose promises. Unemployment in Tunisia remains stubbornly high at 16%, and averages 40% among youth. There’s been a “security vacuum” in the country for more than two years. More than 30 national guards have perished in skirmishes along the Algerian border. A recent standoff in a suburb of Tunis, the capital...
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Brexit and the Art of Negotiation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Brexit and the Art of Negotiation

...economic outcome most people want: continued access to the single market without major disruption to the British economy. Even before negotiation has started, the spat between Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker suggests that the dynamic is oppositional, competitive and antagonistic. In other words the starting conditions for the Brexit negotiations are already strained....
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How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can scientists fight the tide of "fake news"?

...economic profit. It has been defined as “a catch-all term encompassing propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and hoaxing — including the spheres of science and medicine”. Before the term fake news became popular, people would often use the term propaganda, which has been used since ancient times for political gain. The Roman consul, Octavian, is said to have...
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John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation
Science, Maths & Technology

John Perry Barlow: An Appreciation

...economic arguments would be irrelevant. In 1990, Barlow co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which continues to fight governmental overreach on the Internet. Barlow passionately believed that the Internet offered the potential for: “a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth ....
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