What can we do as individuals to help save the planet? Acting locally is satisfying because we can see the results, but a geographer argues that large-scale solutions often make the most difference.
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Artificial Intelligence can perpetuate existing social imbalances in a harmful manner. Can this undesirable scenario be avoided?
New research suggests that non-profits tempted by the social enterprise model do not necessarily lose sight of their social mission in favour of profits. In fact, the opposite is true.
Our relationship with the natural world is humanity’s defining challenge. Inspired by ecotopian novels, communities and movements across the world are working to meet it.
Domestic workers in Argentina are essentially women employed in the informal economy which can enable forms of mistreatment. Today they’re fighting to formalise their status.
Not just for would-be actors: Theatre of the Oppressed is a unique genre of drama education through which students learn how to analyze social problems and change typical outcomes.
The kind of climate action outlined by the ubiquitous climate checklists won’t be enough.
The same-sex marriage postal survey gave Australians a chance to create data for social change. And that’s rare.
Female baby boomers who missed out earlier in life are now jumping at the opportunity to further their education.
Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets to protest the government.
Australia is a place that prides itself on the fair go. And yet, all is clearly not well.
Much social good can come from mass involvement – and research shows that includes online activism. The bigger picture takes in all those people who care but are at risk of doing nothing.
In 1913, an Indian literary giant named Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-white person to win the literature prize. He wrote over 2,000 songs and, like Dylan’s, they still resonate today.
It wasn’t even until the late 19th century that this was codified into law.
While fashion can be an act of defiance and subversion, it can also exploit the oppressed.
Climate change ‘changes everything’, says the writer Naomi Klein. The only way society can respond is to change itself - and that will need everyone on be on the same page instead of arguing about it.
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Professor of Law, University of Utah
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Honorary Professor of Social Science, University of Wollongong; Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Arts, Charles Sturt University
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Principal Lecturer in Psychology, University of Brighton
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Associate professor, Culture and Language Studies, University of Waterloo
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Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, University of Minnesota
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College
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Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and Associate Director of Public and Digital Humanities Initiatives, Rutgers University - Newark
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PhD Candidate, Sociology and Demography, The University of Texas at Austin
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Adjunct Professor of Society & Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Adjunct Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Tutor, Curtin University