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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
Disasters
Disasters: from Haiti to New Orleans.
Time
Time - how do we use & how has this changed in the last 50 years?
Thrift
Thrift and austerity
Black music cultures in London
Black music cultures - how did they evolve in London?
The Religious Right in the US
The religious right in the US - an exploration of their route to power.
Borders
Borders: from Calais to Mexico.
Hidden gay lives
Hidden gay lives, from Polari to true crime stories.
Nudity
Nudity - its cultural history and changing meaning.
Water
Water: a cultural as well as a natural substance.
Loss
Loss - an exploration of different forms of lost experience.
Citizenship
Citizenship - from schools to the process by which immigrants become British citizens.
Loneliness
Loneliness - is it a uniquely modern emotion?