COVID-19 and our (complicated) relationship with tech
In this post, Esther Davies, a recent MA graduate of the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, explores how the recent pandemic...
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Census 2021 – Big Brother is watching you and here’s why it’s important
In this post, Lisa Buckner discusses why the Census is so important, particularly during a pandemic. THE 21st March 2021 is Census Day in England,...
Distrust, the vaccine and COVID-19
In this post, Nick Emmel discusses why a sociological understanding of trust is so important as vaccines for COVID-19 become available. I KNOW where I...
Teaching Sexuality Education in China – Reflection by a Sociologist
IN this post, Chong Liu reflects on her experience of researching and teaching sexuality education in China. She states that the existing institutional challenges are...
The New Repertoire of Womens' Protests in Poland #thisiswar #tojestwojna
Dr. Magdalena Muszel, sociologist, cultural anthropologist, and feminist activist. In 2013 she defended her PhD in social and political sciences at the European University Institute...
Understanding Pro-choice Protests in Poland
Dr. Magdalena Muszel, sociologist, cultural anthropologist, and feminist activist. In 2013 she defended her PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University...
The Trouble with BAME
Dr Paul Bagguley is a Reader in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds The Covid 19 crisis and...
Rethinking Human Rights
THE West has claimed ownership of human rights and used them to establish and cement Europe’s superiority over non-Europe. A panel on ‘Decolonising Human Rights’,...
Lovepinning the Unprecedented
In this poem Dr Rodanthi Tzanelli revisits Hannah Arendt's thesis that the phenomenon of totalitarianism has broken the continuity of Western history, rendering meaningless...
The Fight for American Democracy in the Age of COVID-19
In this post, Dr Sarah Marusek situates the issues arising from the recent presidential election in the United States in the historical struggle for rights...