Feb 25, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Antoine Pécoud Increased control of people’s mobility because of COVID-19 might not be so easy to undo. One of the most immediate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the closure of many international borders. This had a severe impact on migration, and in...
Feb 9, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Manuel Vallee Research shows that disease is invariably related to pollution in subtle but intimate ways as Manuel Vallee explains. How reliable is the disease information provided by mass media? What gaps exist in their coverage? In particular, how well do they...
Nov 5, 2020 | Politics & Society
We all know the harm that gangs can do but can they ever be good for society? And what constitutes a gang anyway? Three experts from the University discuss the issues in 350 words each. Social inequality is the real crime By definition, gangs are entities that engage...
Jun 14, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
Long before three African American women registered the twitter handle, #BlackLivesMatter, and started sending out tweets that helped to mobilize the spontaneous outrage against the impunity that followed the killings of unarmed black people by police officers and by...
Oct 3, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Margaret Hagerman In America’s children, we often see hope for a better future, especially when it comes to reducing racism. Each new generation of white people, the thinking goes, will naturally and inevitably be more open-minded and tolerant than previous ones....
Mar 28, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Avril Bell In an extract from her new book A Land of Milk & Honey: Making Sense of Aotearoa New Zealand, Avril Bell discusses whether settler colonialism is still a thing in the twenty-first century. The movie Avatar tells the story of a corporation from Earth...
Nov 13, 2017 | Business & Economics
James Roberts, a sociologist at the University of Auckland, believes that digital networks open up possibilities for radically transforming our financial and economic systems. We asked him to discuss some of his ideas about intelligent economic planning in a...
Jun 8, 2017 | Arts & Culture, Business & Economics
What is the celebrity industrial complex? How does it impact our democracies, our culture, and our society? Joining Maria Armoudian to discuss the celebrity industrial complex and the issues that arise from it, are Joshua Gamson, David Gilles, and P. David Marshall....