The antics of ‘Brits abroad’ continues to fill copy in tabloid newspapers but it’s more about titillation than genuine moral outrage.
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Many young South Africans struggle to get a job due to the high levels of unemployment. But access to information, which is influenced by race and class, increases the chances of getting employed.
On the same day that London’s legendary Fabric closed permanently, Berlin’s infamous techno club Berghain was granted a tax break.
In sports, what’s considered fair play has changed throughout history. At one point, even looking ‘too poor’ was grounds for exclusion.
Brexit campaigners connected with voters who felt left behind – and won.
In response to high levels of crime, South Africans have turned their homes into fortresses, seeking security behind high walls. But doing so might be counter-productive.
The working-class son of a bus driver has been elected to one of the most important roles in UK politics.
Today’s classes were born out of the machine age. They are not fit for purpose in 21st century Britain.
Rather than being microcosms of the community, schools are increasingly divided by class and ethnicity.
The student protests that rocked South Africa’s universities in 2015 are part of a class struggle as poor and marginalised people fight for their place in an unequal system.
Forget fast cars and fancy clothes – it’s language that reveals where you really come from.
Interviews with members of the white-working class show that most welcome difference and diversity.
In the latest ANUpoll, most Australians (92%) surveyed responded that they belong to the middle or working class.
The black middle class occupies a complex and sometimes precarious position in society, one that requires constant renegotiation.
The more privileged of us swear, fart and take drugs, just like the less privileged portrayed in the SBS show Struggle Street. But they don’t have exploitive documentaries being made about them.
Australian anthropologist Michael Taussig writes: To slip into the blue of your blue jeans is to slip into a surprising and unexpected encounter with the past … but without your having the faintest idea…
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, Joanna Mendelssohn examines the links between Indigenous art and class. The great…
Here is a question: how can it be that everyone has free and independent choice and yet we largely converge on exactly the same things? That’s neither original nor independent. Despite economic growth…
William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, likes to go deer stalking. It must be a class thing. Until the 19th century, deer stalking – what in the US is called “hunting” – was largely…
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Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Design Anthropology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Faculty Fellow, Center for Animals and Public Policy, Tufts University
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Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Management, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance. School of Society, Enterprise and Environment, Bath Spa University
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Professor emerita of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
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Professor of Electoral Geography, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
