How social science research can make a positive contribution to local political struggles.

Bob Pease introduces his radical new reconceptualization of violence against women.

Linsey McGoey explains how strategic ignorance rules the world – whether we know it or not.

Raewyn Connell sets out a radical blueprint to solve the global crisis in further education

Onyeka Nubia takes issue with easy opinion that England cultivated its racism within the hallowed institutions of the Tudors.

Queerness has been associated with modernity in most twentieth-century debates on gender and sexuality.

James Griffiths explores how China’s state-sponsored internet censorship is shaping the entire digital world.

Hissene Habré was the first former African head of state to be tried before a court in an African country. What can the trial’s success teach us about the future of the international legal framework?

Brain Eyler exposes the destruction of a natural biodynamic wonder – the mighty Mekong river – and reveals the stories of those fighting to preserve it