Oct 2, 2015

Author Eran Shor discuss his article, "A Paper Ceiling: Explaining the Persistent Underrepresentation of Women in Printed News," which was co-authored by Arnout van de Rijt, Alex Miltsov, Vivek Kulkarni, and Steven Skiena, and was published in the October 2015 issue of American Sociological Review.

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Oct 1, 2015

Lisa Jean Moore discusses her paper “A Day at the Beach: Rising Sea Levels, Horseshoe Crabs, and Traffic Jams”, with Sarah Neal, Editor of Sociology. Posted October 2015.

Sep 21, 2015

Maryam Griffin examines transportation politics and the Freedom Rides in Palestine in the context of a strategic shift in which Palestinian resistance has de-prioritised leader-centered negotiations in favour of grassroots mobilisation that directly appeals to international civil...

Sep 21, 2015

Robbie McVeigh argues that, with demographic change in Northern Ireland, racist violence has become one of the principal manifestations of unionist unease. The state's reaction to racism has been to tolerate a level of acceptable violence. People of colour and migrant workers in NI, he argues, have been 'living...

Sep 21, 2015

Victoria Brittain considers the legacy of Ken Saro-Wiwa's struggle against the ecological destruction of his homelands wrought...