War memorials and faded names on plaques have lost their power to remind us of battlefield realities in the past. …
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Cultural Journal/Kulturní časopis / Network of European cultural journals, linking up more than 90 partner journals and associated magazines and institutions from nearly all European countries./Sdružuje na 90 spřátelených časopisů napříč Evropou, jejichž články publikuje v angličtině. Redakce časopisu má sídlo ve Vídni.
When self care is guilty pleasure
Testimonies of women in war Who can focus on interior design after the massacres of Mariupol, Borodyanka and Bucha? Ukrainian women …
Migrant women staying behind
Out of cities and work, India´s working women struggle to rebuild their lives. Millions of internal migrants were sent back …
No empire without end
Putin’s Ukraine war is drawing a curtain on ‘Pax Rossica’, the notion that Russia can dominate the post-Soviet Eurasian landmass. …
How fetal politics stole Americans’ reproductive rights
The US Supreme Court has overturned two landmark cases that protected a woman’s rights over her own body for 50 …
Fighting fatigue
The unspoken aspect of war It’s easy to get exhausted soon after startling news breaks. But dealing with a limited …
Making sense of the war
As the shock of war gives way to reflection, Ukrainian public discourse has turned to questions of the past, present …
Metaverse wars
War becomes the twin of communication: the development of media has not only changed how warfare is reported, but also …
The justice train from Bucha
The egregious crimes against Ukraine’s civilian population might just be too much for the International Criminal Court to handle. Not …
Are the Russian people Putin’s victims or collaborators in crime?
Lacking a positive national identity, Russians continue to be governed by a dangerous imperial mindset that betrays both subservience and …
No limits? China, Russia and Ukraine
China’s failure to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine seems to have confirmed the two autocracies’ friendship with no limits. But …
Flags of survival
The Ukrainians trapped underground in besieged Mariupol steel works were instructed to wave white flags. They face a warring nation …
Ukraine: A battleground for Europe’s future
For Ukrainians, this uneven battle is about the survival of their nation. However, it is also about the future of …
Of fish and people
Belarusian and Ukrainian intellectuals have been applying postcolonial theory to Russia since the 1990s. But they have largely been ignored …
Conflict, commitment and fear
War polarizes debate. And the sympathies of post-Soviet migrants living in Central Europe have come under extra scrutiny since war …
Real refugees, fake refugees
After pushing back Middle Eastern refugees into the forests on its northern border with Belarus, Poland is now welcoming an …
Cancel culture vs. execute culture
Why Russian manuscripts don’t burn, but Ukrainian manuscripts burn all too well Rather than debating what to do with Russian …
You can’t lose democratic elections if they don’t exist
It would have taken a miracle for Viktor Orbán to lose the election. Hungary is a fortified kleptocracy where the …
Preparing for the good times to be over
A month into Russia’s invasion, is the EU ready for the challenge? Russia’s war on Ukraine is clearly an attack …
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