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21
Nov
2019
Understanding the online "Manosphere" -- Simon Copland
In April 2018 Alek Minassian sped a van through Toronto, Canada, killing ten and injuring sixteen others. Minassian belonged to an online community called ‘...
21
Nov
2019
Dr Laura Clancy - The British Monarchy, Grenfell Tower, and social inequality in London
The fire at Grenfell Tower, a block of public housing flats in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, in June 2017 has come to epitomise the...
04
Nov
2019
Christopher Chevalier: Connected Histories – Recovering Oral History and Social History in Solomon Islands
Pre-PHD Submission Presentation
"My research explored different approaches to oral history to recover individual and social history in Solomon Islands since...
04
Nov
2019
Dr Jathan Sadowski- Biopolitical Platforms: The Perverse Virtues of Digital Labour
By mediating everyday activities, social interactions, and economic transactions, digital platforms play an increasingly dominant role in contemporary...
28
Oct
2019
Tim Rowse: Indigenous cultural capital – an inescapably political concept
This paper will develop some ideas broached in the recent essay collection The difference identity makes: Indigenous cultural capital in Australian cultural...
21
Oct
2019
Dr Anna Olsen PhD - The social life of naloxone
Hardon, van der Geest and Whyte, anthropologists who study medicines, contend that like other commodities, medicines acquire meaning as they enter into the...
30
Sep
2019
Surveillance ambiguities and the practice of care
The implicit ambiguity of surveillance as both control and care has been a key theoretical issue in social science research on surveillance practices and...
