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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: InterviewThe European cultural sector, pandemic precarity, and Universal Basic IncomePhilosopher and political economist Philippe Van Parijs looks at whether the cultural sector could benefit from a...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaReimagining Palestine in the future: an interview with Saleem HaddadPalestine is a rich canvas for science fiction: it is the frontier where tools of subjugation, occupation and...
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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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Published in: openIndiaA tale of two events, and two culturesThe Science Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are the largest events of...
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Published in: HomeSteve Martin: Changing your ways is easier than changing your mindThe author of international bestseller 'Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive' joins us to answer the...
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Published in: TransformationFive behaviors that perpetuate toxic capitalismMoney and productivity don’t define us; love does.
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Published in: 50.50‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Open letter to the women of the world from Leyla Güven"All the women of the world need to be saying enough to fascism, enough to dictatorship!"
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Published in: TransformationPraxis in a polarized world: the dilemma of activist scholars on the leftIf progressive academics want to work with ‘the people,’ then we’ll have to meet ‘the people’ where they are.
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