In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at
women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather …

In The Class Ceiling, authors Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison deftly dismantle popular
(and often highly politicized) myths about inequality and meritocracy in the UK. First, and …

In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a
much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting the ways in which popular …

This article examines the growing prominence accorded to the idea of 'resilience'as a
regulatory ideal, locating it in the context of a 'turn to character'in contemporary culture which …

The increasing datafication, in particular the availability of data and corresponding
algorithms introduces new means to measure, capture, describe and represent social life in …

Reading the current conjuncture is challenging. Alongside the exigencies of the current
global pandemic, we live in a moment of resurgence of right-wing nationalism, populism …

Why is classical music predominantly the preserve of the white middle classes?
Contemporary associations between classical music and social class remain …

Recent critics have suggested that character education (either in and of itself or certain
instantiations of it) is overly individualised and, as a result, fails to engage adequately with …

New data-driven technologies appear to promise a new era of accuracy and objectivity in
scientifically-informed educational policy and governance. The data-scientific objectivity …

Psychology and economics are powerful sources of expert knowledge in contemporary
governance. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is becoming a priority in education policy …