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Published in: oDRThe market decides? A short history of Ukrainian pop musicHow should the Ukrainian state protect Ukrainian language? The story of an experimental festival tells us much about...
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Published in: HomeDemocracy dumbed downTV anchor Ravish Kumar, a kill-joy and not a theatre-lover, dislikes the very sight of a Nero fiddling and has run a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaUN Declaration defends peasant farmers, but will it help stop attacks and human rights abuses?Rural activists are finding out that a UN declaration to protect them and action by governments to hold those...
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Published in: TransformationSensuous materialism: emotion and the leftWe must make a new world in which a new kind of human being can be born, but how?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaDemocracies are not politeDemocracies thrive on discussion and the contest of ideas. However, we must reach a consensus that certain values...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaReconquering Europe? VOX and the extreme right in SpainThe upcoming elections in Spain on the 28th of April will see VOX as the new political protagonist joining the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAngels, murderers and worshippers – how are young people to make sense of the media response to Christchurch?Words matter - so why are media studies being stripped from our English curriculum just when our young people need it most?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe Venezuelan transition is male dominated. Here is why it is a problemDespite evidence highlighting the importance of women’s participation in democratization processes, these findings...
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Published in: TransformationWhy Costa Rica tops the Happy Planet IndexA focus on peace, equality and protecting the environment creates the best conditions for human happiness.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#CrisisInVenezuela: A publicity stunt between heroes and villains?The crisis in Venezuela has become a media show between heroes and villains orchestrated by foreign powers. What are...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaDo men have the exclusive right to interpret the Qur’an?In the millennium and a half since Islam’s advent, only men, and only Arab, or Arabic-speaking men, have interpreted...
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Published in: TransformationPete Seeger and the music of resistanceCan songs change the world? Maybe not, but they can help to ensure that the world doesn’t change us.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe government must restore funding for free TV licences for the over-75s, urge campaigners and expertsThe government has off-loaded responsibility for funding – or withdrawing – free TV licenses, onto the BBC. Media...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe BBC should stand up to the government’s hypocrisy over free licence fees for over-75sPerhaps there is a very British compromise to be found?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta#ElectionsSpain2019: Populist radicalisation, Catalonia, and the far-rightSpain is the epitome of political instability, with a 5 party fragmentation and the impossibility of appeasing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Does Europe end in Derry? Peace is at stake“The UK seemingly leaving the Union, leaves neither Europe, nor History. It is time also for a new sensibility and a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Radical-right backlash against Games of Belonging: the case of Mesut ÖzilÖzil, like many others, has repeatedly stated that he would prefer to play for both national football teams if...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn the need to shape the Arab exile body in BerlinA long essay on why the Arab intellectual community in Berlin needs to acquire a name, shape, and a mandate of sorts.
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Published in: HomeThe wall isn’t a state of emergency but a state of exceptionThe German legal scholar and Nazi ideologue Carl Schmitt described a ‘State of Exception’ as the process by which a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaSophia de Mello Breyner: when art is not free, people are not freePoetry is a form of resistance against indignity. The responsibility of the writer is not only to interpret life,...
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