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Shoes
Shoes: a cultural history.
Architecture and health
Architecture, housing and health.
Maoism
Maoism: its origins and development as a global political force.
Night-time Economy
The Night-time Economy: How has it changed over the years?
White Power Movement in US - Rise of Racist Right in Europe
The White Power Movement in the US. Also, the racist, far right in Europe.
Au pairing and domestic labour
Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society works.
Metrics
Laurie Taylor explores the increasing use of metrics across many aspects of our lives.
Identity
Identity: a special programme exploring the way in which we define ourselves.
Work - what is it good for?
Laurie Taylor explores the history, harms and downsides to our contemporary work culture.
Migrants - Refugees
Migrants and refugees.
Surveillance
Surveillance - how we are both watchers, as well as the watched.
The Class Ceiling
The Class Ceiling: does privilege pay?
Motorbikes
Motorbikes - a social and cultural history.
Walls
Walls: Laurie Taylor explores the social history and symbolism of human-made barriers.
Snobbery
Snobbery - its meaning, history and changing nature.
Skateboarding - Parkour
Skateboarding and parkour: lifestyle sport in the hyper regulated city.
Corridors
Corridors - their evolution and changing nature.
Spectacular Cities
Spectacular cities - from Kazakhstan to the United Arab Emirates.
Debt
Debt - from household to national.
Kitsch - Cute
Cute and kitsch: their nature and changing meaning.
Branding
Branding - the 'persuasion industries'.
CEO Society - Time Management
CEO Society and Time management.
Detective fiction - homicide and social media
Detective fiction - how it represents social change. Also homicide confessions on Facebook
No-Go Zones and Dangerous Holidays
Global no-go zones and the complex overlap between conflict and tourism.
The Politics of Memorials
The Politics of Memorials - from Ireland to the Mississippi Delta.
Conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories - their origins and evolution.
Land and territory
Land struggles: from Bolivia to Britain.
Estates
Council estates - then and now. Laurie Taylor explores the concept of the 'sink estate'.
Serial killers
Serial killers: the media and cultural response to these crimes.
Cool
The origins & meaning of 'cool'
Immortality - transhumanism
Immortality and transhumanism
