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The classical music industry has especially high numbers of people drawn from private wealth and educational privilege
D.H. Lawrence’s book is a seething commentary on class, exposing his fears for Britain’s future. But the film is a romantic period drama.
Class allows us to understand inequality not as a consequence of personal failings, but as a socioeconomic issue.
Annie Ernaux is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her autofiction masterpiece, The Years, has been called a modern In Search of Lost Time.
The French writer has won the Nobel for literature for her ascetic approach to writing and fearlessness in covering the personal and taboo.
Appeals to social organisation are about knowing one’s place, a particularly English preoccupation.
Your background and life experiences seep into the mind’s eye, quietly shaping whether you believe your dreams can come true.
Meat has been a marker of class and gender divides, sparked scientific revolutions and has been at the centre of wars.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
A wave of new horror films leant into Tony Blair’s Asbo policy demonising young working class men, portraying them as the monsters that society should be scared of.
Outdated and harmful ideas associated with certain south-east England accents are still pervasive, according to new research.
Australia likes to talk about itself as an egalitarian society but class, of course, exists. And it can have an impact on our romantic relationships, bringing both rewards and conflict.
Research has found that the arts industries are lacking working-class representation and that the barriers to entry start early in life
Focusing solely on home working neglects the fact that most employees in the UK rarely or never worked from home after the pandemic
Despite repeated pledges to improve diversity, data and industry testimony shows that there are fewer people from minority backgrounds getting jobs in the film and TV industries.
A french classic has had a thoroughly modern update, meditating on themes of class, race and colonialism.
A stark divide in the response to the film suggests a deep disconnect between media elites and the rest of the country.
Suburbs are more racially and economically diverse than ever, making them key battlegrounds for the election.
Asking Australians about their favourite art and artists reveals divides between those who like traditional versus contemporary forms. But Indigenous art transcends such categories.
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Speech Pathology and Director, Australian Stuttering Research Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor - Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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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 Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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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
