Globalisation has improved nutrition and child mortality, increased income and life expectancy. But turbo-charged globalisation contains systemic risks – growing inequality, pandemics, cyber and terrorist attacks. Are our international institutions up to the challenge?
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We eat about 3 times more sugar than is healthy. Sugar is killing us. But still the food industry stuffs cheap food with more and more sugar, salt and palm oil, and markets it to some of the most vulnerable people in society.
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Sound is in the air. There is an explosion in the number of artists and architects experimenting with sound and objects at the Royal College of Art Sound Lab, exploring how we will hear and listen in the future.
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This podcast is a fascinating exploration of our urban smellscapes. It is part of our Feast for the Senses series.
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The hauntingly beautiful music of the BayAka people, and their deep and abiding relationship to the rainforest in the Central African Republic.
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Growth is a fundamental tenet of capitalism, and growth is driving climate change and environmental degradation. So can capitalism provide a sustainable future for our planet? We explore the views of Marx and Engels, and current Marxist thinkers.
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For 90,000 British families, au pairs are the only workable solution to the ‘childcare crisis’ but at what cost to the young women who thought they were part of a cultural exchange, and found themselves as domestic workers, working 50 hours per week?
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Most of us don’t really understand what money is, or what it might be. Can it be wrested from the domination and mismanagement of banks and governments and restored to its fundamental role as a “claim upon society”?
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On Friday 7th November 2014, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities hosted a conference entitled ‘Football and Culture 2014.’ The event aimed to explore the relationship and interaction between football and wider…
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Greece is going to the polls, against the background of austerity measures that have signally failed to reduce the public debt. Further austerity measures cannot work argues economist Yannis Kitromilides, the only way forward is radical reform of the EMU.
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