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What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is i
A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and
Listener note: This interview contains discussions of suicide. Youth and Suicide in American Cinema:
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Kate Steel, Lect
It is well-known that the institution of marriage has changed dramatically in the past few decades.
In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies,
The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgroun
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public ac
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At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, c.1650-1850 (Manchester U
Who runs Britain? In Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Harvard UP, 2024),
Jack Palmer’s Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill-Queen’s Univers
Why do armed groups employ terrorism in markedly different ways during civil wars? Drawing on more t
Dr. Aideen O'Shaughnessy is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Lincoln. She has a P
Women of the Mafia: Power and Influence in the Neapolitan Camorra (Cornell UP, 2024) by Dr. Felia Al
The open-access edited volume Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast As
On the podcast today, I am joined by anthropologist Andrea Pia (London School of Economics and Polit
Addressing questions about what it means to be ‘British’ or ‘Irish’ in the twenty-first century, Mig
Spain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both a
Today’s book is: Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions (Columbia UP, 2024), by Er