‘The Good Place’: Good Show, Bad Ethics Glenn McLaren Society & Culture, Uncategorized My daughter and I have been watching a US TV series over the summer called ‘The Good Place’. We enjoy it and find it one of the funniest and cleverest comedies we have seen for some time. What makes it...
#Revolution: how the humble hashtag changed world politics Dr. Joanna Rozpedowski Politics, Society & Culture From fashion trends to global events, the hashtag (#) has become the conspicuous symbol of the Twittersphere. What only a decade ago denoted a numerical symbol of no special significance or attribution is now...
“No-Tell Motels”: Abortion in Pre-Roe South Carolina Cara Delay, Nursing Clio, Cora Webb, Nursing Clio, Regina Day, Nursing Clio and Madeleine Ware, Nursing Clio Science & Medicine, Society & Culture “Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal abortion in South Carolina in the 1960s and early 1970s, this woman in her 60s, an oral history narrator,...
The long history of separating families in the US and how the trauma lingers Jessica Pryce, The Conversation Politics & Economics, Society & Culture During the last few weeks, hundreds of families have been separated, following the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy towards illegal immigrants. Even though the separations have reportedly...
Where is the Internet Headed? Solana Larsen, LSE Business Review Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Over the past few months, you’ve almost certainly heard someone lament the state of the internet. It might have been a friend or family member, who learned the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica breach was...
Prison Cells and Pretty Walls: Gender Coding and American Schools Jennifer Borgioli Binis, Nursing Clio Education, Gender Studies, History, Society & Culture A few months ago, I was scrolling through Twitter and saw a conversation about redesigning classroom spaces and a phrase caught my attention: “redesign is NOT about being pretty for Pinterest.” As someone...
Bad Guests? On the Role of House Visits in Aid Delivery in Urban Jordan Ann-Cristin Wagner, LSE Middle East Centre Politics & Economics, Society & Culture When I meet Abu Eisa, a well-established cook, he is busy preparing meals for poor Syrians for the first iftar of Ramadan. His hometown, Mafraq, a Jordanian border town close to Zaatari camp, is among the...
