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Real change comes from below!
Lisa Taylor discusses the first event Commoners Choir performed: a singing and walking project about the rights of lay people to access land for leisure and recreation.
Weber’s sociology of the press and journalism
Roger Dickinson discusses social and political changes since 1910 experienced by the newspaper industry
Toward a postmaterialist psychology
The majority of mainstream psychologists still adopt a materialist stance toward nature. Mario Beauregard discusses two categories of…
The Children’s Country
Stephen Muecke discusses the Goolarabooloo’s knowledge of Country, their long history of struggle for survival, and the alliances that formed to support them.
How great and how good?
Seth A. Williams considers the association between neighborhood third places, cohesion and neighbor interaction
Testing the Golden Rule
Yuan Ju and Jiawen Li discuss an experiment that asks whether people in a strategic situation behave according…
Change in attitudes about cannabis legalization
Jacob Felson discusses why public opinion about cannabis legalization has become more liberal, and some states have begun…
Border Women in Narratives of Forced Displacement in Greece
Maria Tamboukou discusses refugee women’s stories of forced displacement and the importance of embedded and embodied practices in…
The Tail that Wags the Economy
Julian Kozlowski suggests economic crises produce persistent effects because they scar our beliefs
Quantifying Economic Damages from Climate Change
Maximillian Auffhammer discusses how economists calculate the social cost of carbon
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