The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Christopher Hilliard
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Between nostalgia and exclusion: structural constraints and dietary resilience among undocumented Mexican migrants in Los Angeles, California. [PDF]
García-Macías P, Bárcenas NAG.
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Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
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Editorial: Overcoming (in)visible barriers: gender, work and discrimination. [PDF]
Ehrstein Y, Maiani S, Andrade C.
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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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The invisible emotional labour sustaining LGBTQIA+ programmes within health organisations. [PDF]
Sasikala A +3 more
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Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program
Policy Points Housing is a fundamental social determinant of health and is particularly amenable to policy intervention. Policies that seek to improve health should improve housing quality, affordability, and stability. The public housing program has improved health across the life course, but the structure of the program currently limits its ...
ANDREW FENELON
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Factors Associated With Cocaine Use Disorder: Results From the French Nationwide Repeated Cross-Sectional OPPIDUM Study (2019-2023). [PDF]
Alhamidi Z +5 more
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Policy Points Improving population health while reducing inequality is possible, but it depends on broad institutional investments whose benefits extend across the socioeconomic distribution rather than accruing primarily to the advantaged. The education–health gradient is sensitive to the race between technology and education.
MARK D. HAYWARD, MATEO P. FARINA
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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