Rob Cawston is openDemocracy's production manager. After graduating from Edinburgh University with a first class degree in English Literature he went on to complete a Masters degree in Area Studies (Latin America) at the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA), University of London. He has written on film, literature, issues of transitional justice and Bob Dylan.

Recent articles

A poetic exploration of colonial-Aboriginal relations and the politics of apology in wartime Australia. Hear author Gail Jones talk about her latest novel.

Portraits of online gamers and their virtual-world alter egos.

A new exhibition explores one of the terrible legacies of Latin America's dirty wars – the forced "disappearance" of thousands of people across the continent. Rob Cawston reviews, plus, a slideshow of selected images.

Mapping the century's minor utopias and the individuals trying to imagine a radically better world.

Robert McGann’s film about the "war on terror" is that rare breed of documentary that resists political agenda, writes Rob Cawston, but how effectively does it tackle the bigger picture?