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Manchester protest (27 September 2014)

Opinion: How free are we really?

30 Oct 2015

Priyamvada Gopal (Faculty of English) discusses freedom as a practice rather than a value to be worshipped.

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Heave, Ho!

Feeling powerless increases the weight of the world… literally

04 Feb 2014

New research shows that the more personally and socially powerless you feel the heavier objects appear to weigh.

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Professor Manuel Castells

Communication Power in the Network Society

16 Nov 2011

The world-renowned sociologist, Professor Manuel Castells, is to be the second Humanitas Visiting Professor in Media at the University of Cambridge...

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