Sarah Lindon - openDemocracy

Wrapping the renga

The votes are in. Our authors' and readers' rengas have their conclusions, picked by the writers from among each other's proposed endings. So we know what

By Sarah Lindon

/ 14 Jun 2007

Gendered states

As International Women's Day comes round again, a familiar list of issues rises up the agenda - rights, violence, education (and yoga, apparently) - in a way that

By Sarah Lindon

/ 8 Mar 2007

Words on images: the cartoon controversy

What emerges clearly from the dispute over the publication of controversial cartoons of Mohammed in the European press is that though globalisation may make the world seem more easily navigable

By Sarah Lindon

/ 10 Feb 2006

Global political and economic forces, migration and social change, make living with difference an everyday challenge for millions. Diversity in Question, a joint conference with the UKs Open University

By Sarah Lindon

/ 20 Dec 2005

High Tide: the truth about our climate crisis, Mark Lynas

UK paperback title: High Tide: news from a warming world High Tide: the truth about our climate crisis by Mark Lynas HarperCollins (UK) | March 2005 | ISBN 0007139403 Buy now: UK,

By Sarah Lindon

/ 28 Sep 2005

Talking democratically

Editors provide a service to writers and readers through clear, lively presentation of information and the circulation of important ideas. But as the distribution of news and comment speeds up

By Sarah Lindon

/ 20 Sep 2005

Mapping Londons multiculture

On 6 September 2004 in Londons Stanhope Centre, openDemocracy and Counterpoint, the British Councils cultural relations project, jointly hosted an innovative one-day conference around the theme of London

By Sarah Lindon

/ 25 Oct 2004

Untranslatable words

Untranslatable Words has moved, you can now find the latest word in our columns and on our frontpage. Menna Elfyn, Welsh poet glas I could have chosen hiraeth, an over-documented

By Sarah Lindon

/ 7 Jul 2004

Talking democracy: 2003 in our forums

How often do you speak to a Swedish neo-conservative? Or a Bosnian refugee in London? Where does the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce join into conversations with

By Solana Larsen and Sarah Lindon

/ 29 Dec 2003

Poetry amidst war

At the end of the 15 February march in London, I sat in Hyde Park in the afternoon sun. It felt strange that the world before me appeared so beautiful.

By Sarah Lindon

/ 7 Apr 2003

Protest days: the peace movement comes out in global demonstrations on 18 January and 15 February

See the openDemocracy map of global protest. Soon, the United States of America will go to war once again to fight for democracy and human rights on behalf of the

By Sarah Lindon and Michael Rebehn

/ 15 Jan 2003