How can the people who constitute a radical space of difference, an entirely different reality, be artistically represented? Laurie Waller and Elvia Vasconcelos explain the use of mirrors when artistically representing the subaltern.
In an age when wealth and power present a more diffuse and benign face to the world, the soft authority of knowledge is ever more important as a force for social change. The politics of knowledge – how ideas are created, used and disseminated – represents a key issue for the social change communit
In the run up to openDemocracy's next Discourses event, Subaltern voices, Michael Saward looks at the ramifications of claims of political representation.
Today, we see that the rules of western European racism are shifting. On the one hand, they are becoming less racialist; on the other hand they are seeking to become official. How should we Europeans understand this, and how should we respond? In the first of her Inter Alia columns, Markha Valenta
The people of Guangdong have managed to defend Cantonese as their prime time television language
Arizona's harsh immigration laws are being pioneered or supported by local leaders who have a political motive or financial stake in incarcerating and detaining as many prisoners or immigrants as possible
British local media is in trouble, we need a much more lively and intelligent approach than just government cuts and schemes imported from the US
The Cycling4Gaza challenge offers concerned people a unique opportunity to raise both money and awareness for those suffering in Gaza.
Can the underdog snatch the crown with a last minute surge? Will the second preferences swing it? With only a few days left of voting the country awaits with baited breath the outcome of....
There was a fascinating response from former Labour minister Stephen Timms MP at the weekend to a speech made by Baroness Warsi last week criticising Labour in Government for undermining “the positive power of faith” and suggesting that the Coalition government would "do God"
What is a climate-change novel, and what makes a good one? Andrew Dobson takes time from his day job as professor of politics to read the existing literature and emerge with suggestions about how to do it better.
The importance of the Pope's visit, or is it the unimportance, which if so would itself be significant is that it is a matter of State.
