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Contributor(s): Dr David Smith | Former US Centre Visiting Lecturer Dr David Smith answers some the key questions about populism: how to define it, where it originated, what the differences are between left and right wing populism and, finally, how populism affects US politics.

This film is part of the series The US Elections: Explained, which is made in collaboration with the LSE’s US Centre.

Contributor(s): | In this video, Emma Sagor (Portland) and Elaine Trimble (London) explain how behavioural science has informed their transportation projects.

The interviews were conducted before the 2020 Portland protests.

Contributor(s): John Collins | We've been working with our global partners to consider how drug users and homeless people have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Highlighting some of the best and worst developments in policies and service provision, this short film asks what we can learn from the crisis.

🔴 This film accompanies a new paper: Saving Lives in the time of COVID-19 – Case Study of Harm Reduction, Homelessness and Drug Use in Dublin, Ireland http://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/As...

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Contributor(s): Professor Mike Savage | Instances of racist hate crimes have surged in the UK since the 2016 Brexit referendum. The rise of populist nationalism in many parts of the developed world testifies to the resurgence of fears around intensified immigration, and to the renewed power of racism.

Professor Mike Savage, director of LSE’s International Inequalities Institute and Martin White Professor in the LSE Department of Sociology, examines the varying forms of nationalism harboured amongst British elites, and considers how intensifying inequalities inform volatile nationalist and racist sentiments across British society.

Find out more about Professor Savage’s research:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/mike-savage

Contributor(s): Rob Sharp | Does the media typically represent asylum seekers and refugees fairly? Could it do a better job at representing them? LSE PhD researcher and journalist Rob Sharp has been working with asylum seekers and refugees to explore how innovative participatory creative storytelling techniques can give voice to their experiences. This short film features participants and three short stories from the Comfrey Project in Gateshead.

Contributor(s): Rebecca Elliott | Climate change is making the planet we inhabit a more dangerous place to live. After several devastating hurricane seasons in recent years, it has become easier, and more frightening, to comprehend what a world of increasingly extreme weather might mean for us. But when policymakers, officials and experts aim to map and quantify the ‘value at risk’ from these threats, what does this mean in practice for the residents of the affected communities? Dr Rebecca Elliott from the Department of Sociology examines how the people of New York City responded to a new ‘flood insurance rate map’ in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012

Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers | For the first in our new series of short films we introduce the theme of walkability in London. As groups of citizens press for more sustainable forms of transport and the Greater London Authority (GLA), through the London Plan, is set to give increasing priority to pedestrians over cars, walking as a form of transport has gained prominence. Given the need for social distancing during the COVID-19 crisis in a city that has seen the highest age-standardised mortality than any other region in the UK, walking will form an important part of any mobility strategy in the coming months.

Contributor(s): John Collins, Charlotte Eaton | It is impossible to specify the number of extrajudicial killings that have occurred in the Philippines since President Duterte announced his ‘war on drugs’ in May 2016. What is certain, however, is the disruptive impacts that these ‘strongman’ politics have had on daily life in that country. This short film shows how Philippine photojournalist Raffy Lerma has documented the human cost if this war. The LSE International Drugs Policy Unit works with campaigners, policy experts and politicians to combat the damaging effects of the war of drugs.

Contributor(s): Eleni Karagiannaki, Tania Burchardt | Eleni Karagiannaki and Tania Burchardt discuss the findings of their research on living arrangements across Europe, and how individuals and families share their resources within households.

Contributor(s): | This video was developed as part of the project Children's data and privacy online: growing up in a digital age by the London School of Economics and Political Science with funding from the Information Commissioner’s Office. It is part of our online privacy toolkit for children, parents, and educators which was developed with the participation of a mix of children aged 12 to 14 years.

Other toolkit resources available at http://www.lse.ac.uk/my-privacy-uk

Online privacy: what’s the issue? http://www.lse.ac.uk/my-privacy-uk/wh...

Who has my data? http://www.lse.ac.uk/my-privacy-uk/wh...

Who is tracking me? http://www.lse.ac.uk/my-privacy-uk/wh...

What are my privacy rights? http://www.lse.ac.uk/my-privacy-uk/wh...

What can go wrong? http://www.lse.ac.uk/my-privacy-uk/wh...

How to protect my privacy? http://www.lse.ac.uk/my-privacy-uk/ho...

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