Crowds and Identities: John Drury's Research Group

By Anne Templeton and Sara Vestergren. At the Conservative Party conference, in a bid to persuade employers to prioritise hiring British workers, Home Secretary Amber Rudd advised that changes were needed to stop non-British citizens from potentially “taking jobs that…

By Sara Vestergren and Anne Templeton. The phenomenon of Pokémon GO has caused crowds to congregate in areas clutching their phones and shouting about rare Pokémon. Pokémon GO players’ behaviour has been compared to that of zombies, which for those…

Social media users and news sources have reported a spate of racist and xenophobic incidents in the UK in the days immediately following the EU referendum result. These include anti-Polish graffiti, people being told ‘go back to your country’ in…

تناولت مقالة حديثة حول تصويت خروج بريطانيا من الاتحاد الأوربي خوف الحكومة أن يؤدي هذا إلى “عدوى الاستفتاء “referendum contagion“. يشير مصطلح “العدوى” هنا ليس فقط إلى إنتشار السلوك بسرعة وإنما أيضا إلى أن الانتشار غير مرغوب ولا يمكن التحكم…

بقلم: إيفانجلوس دودس   الحرب الأهلية السورية وظهور داعش والقصف الغربي لسوريا الذي أدى لنزوح الكثيرين عن بيوتهم وتحولهم للاجئين طلبا للنجاة, بالإضافة إلى هجمات باريس في نوفمبر ٢٠١٥ كل ذلك أدى لظهور خطاب سياسي يريد إظهار كل المسلمين كإرهابيين.…

By Evangelos Ntontis and Anne Templeton  Conventionally in the London Underground, people standing stay on the right side of the escalators, while people who walk use the left side of them. However, Transport for London (TfL) recently conducted some experimental…

By John Drury A recent article on the Brexit debate suggested that there is a fear among Governments that Brexit would lead to ‘referendum contagion’. The term ‘contagion’ here denotes not only the idea of behaviour spreading rapidly, but also that…

This article was written and translated from English by Patricio Saavedra.  La foto de arriba fue publicada días atrás en El Mercurio (18 de Enero de 2016), el diario más famoso y conservador de Chile. Desde mi perspectiva, como estudiante de Doctorado…

By Patricio Saavedra  The picture above was published some days ago in El Mercurio (18th January 2016), which is one of the most famous and conservative newspapers in Chile. From my perspective, as a PhD researcher in social movements, the…

By Evangelos Ntontis The Syrian civil war, the rise of ISIS, and the bombings of Syria from the West have caused people to abandon their houses and become refugees in order to survive. The attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015,…