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COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...history as the host city...Glasgow and COP26 After a delay, due to the COVID pandemic, COP26 finally went ahead in Glasgow, meaning there has been considerable international attention on the city. In recent decades Glasgow has been portrayed as an example of a city that has undergone a successful ‘transformation’ from an industrial hub to a vibrant
The origins of Welsh male voice choirs
History & The Arts

The origins of Welsh male voice choirs

...history of Wales that the popular mind associates the Welsh male voice choir, and the popular mind is right. Its origins can be traced back to the middle of the nineteenth century. Beginning as offshoots of mixed voice choirs, male-only ensembles soon acquired a self-standing presence of their own, varying in size from glee parties of twenty to mighty phalanxes over a...
Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?
Society, Politics & Law

Rosa Parks and Rob Williams sparked a revolution against racism – but has the US squandered their legacy?

...history. Dr Anthony Gunter looks at how the struggles for integration still continue in America today...After a long day at work, 42-year-old black seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She went to the back and took a seat in the section designated for black ('coloured') people. Rosa’s subsequent refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, as...
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...Family interacting with technology One factor often identified as contributing to childhood obesity is the abundance of technology now available to most children, which allegedly discourages them from participating in more traditional physical activities. However, the wide range of technology available means it can exert a variety of effects on children’s participation...
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...history people have migrated from their place of birth for different reasons – for example, to seek new ways of surviving, to colonise new lands, to establish new markets for trade, or because they feared for their lives in their country of origin. Large movements of refugees around the world, as in the late twentieth century, are often linked to wider regional or...
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Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...family lamenting your fate. Over the years, the carers forget to turn on the TV. You’re too cold. Then you’re too hot. You’re always thirsty. The visits of your friends and family dwindle. Your partner moves on. And there’s nothing you can do about it.” Owen and I are talking on Skype. I’m sitting in London, UK, and he’s in another London three-and-a-half...
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...families’. In 2019, New York City announced that Marsha along with Rivera would both be 2 out of 7 new monuments being built for NYC to include more historical women. Bayard Rustin17 March 1912 – 24 August 1987 Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. [A photograph of Bayard Rustin] Bayard Rustin was a gay African American civil rights...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...family is seen as the best, and therefore if that's the case there must be particular kinds of gender relationships that gets laid on the top of that family because that family presupposes husband and wife and children living together etc. So in social constructionism then we're wanting to move through those six elements, but key as well and this is perhaps the seventh...