Sisterhood behind bars

  Female solidarity in Belarusian prisons   A former Belarusian political detainee reveals the remarkable depth of cohesion and trust between women activists confined for weeks in overcrowded prison cells. …

Datum publikace:
25. 8. 2021
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Eurozine

Curtailing academic freedom

Research and education in Hungary and the UK Attacks on academic freedom in Hungary are rife: the Central European University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences being recent victims. But …

Datum publikace:
24. 8. 2021
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Eurozine

Writing in opposition

A conversation on the politics of literature   When political points can be scored by tearing up children’s books that are deemed too tolerant, what is a writer to do? …

Datum publikace:
9. 8. 2021
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Eurozine

Keeping sane

Journalism is steadily becoming less and less liveable, due to structural problems and political interference. From heroic poses to varying degrees of denial, each professional develops their own individual strategies …

Datum publikace:
29. 7. 2021
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Eurozine

Journalism under duress

From the 31st European Meeting of Cultural Journals Three opposition journalists from Turkey, Russia and Hungary talk to Eurozine’s editor-in-chief about repressive regimes, personal risk, migration, the role of the …

Datum publikace:
28. 7. 2021
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Eurozine

Borders, bodies and see-all technologies

Pushing the limits of bio-surveillance Use of high-tech surveillance is on the rise: in a moment when controlling the spread of COVID-19 is paramount, a global regime of technologically enabled …

Datum publikace:
27. 7. 2021
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Eurozine

The story of the Sputnik V vaccine

Vaccine nationalism and Cold War tropes abound Marek Eby   Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine could be one of the most effective jabs available. Yet, its media coverage in the West has …

Datum publikace:
3. 7. 2021
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Eurozine

The domination of football

Autocrats and nationalists behind Euro 2020 Ronny Blaschke   World sporting events intrinsically emphasize national allegiance. When real-life rivalries mix with on-pitch competition, football, the ‘beautiful game’, can quickly turn …

Datum publikace:
2. 7. 2021
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Eurozine

Young and disobedient

Christian Mellon   Faced with government inaction on climate change, young people are increasingly engaging in civil disobedience. For those as yet unable to vote, the act of collectively removing …

Datum publikace:
1. 7. 2021
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Eurozine

Lost in distance learning

Roberta  Cardarello Ira Vannini   Interactive education has become essential in the classroom. But didactic teaching methods seem to have resurfaced through interactive media delivery. The consequent loss of engagement …

Datum publikace:
4. 6. 2021
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Eurozine

Revenge as policy

The radicalisation of the Lukašenka regime   Volker Weichsel   With the abduction of a passenger flight, the Belarusian regime gave up the last remains of its connections to democratic …

Datum publikace:
3. 6. 2021
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Eurozine

Navalnyj is the Russian Mandela

Interview with Denis Bilunov   Denis Bilunov is a Russian politician, writer, and journalist. Bilunov helped organize the Marches of Dissent from 2006 to 2008, and was one of the …

Datum publikace:
6. 5. 2021
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Denis Bilunov

Salisbury, Berlin, Vrbětice

Vladimír Handl Osteuropa   The GRU has left a trail of violence across Europe. Revelations that it was behind the 2014 explosions in Vrbětice worsen relations not only between Prague …

Datum publikace:
30. 4. 2021
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Eurozine

IOU planet

Eurozine Editorial Sarah Waring   Industrialized nations have heavily plundered natural resources for around 160 years. It’s now payback time. The US and EU, having just pledged to significantly reduce …

Datum publikace:
29. 4. 2021
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Eurozine

Shifting the wall further east

Kundera’s tragedy of ‘central Europe’ three decades later   Mykola Riabchuk In an attempt to distance themselves from the post-Soviet realm and signal their belonging to the West, some countries …

Datum publikace:
20. 4. 2021
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Eurozine

Ecology starts at school

Edouard Gaudot The meritocratic premise of modern schooling serves merely to reproduce inequalities. In order to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century, the purpose of schooling …

Datum publikace:
18. 4. 2021
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Eurozine

The Europeans

Enda O’Doherty   Milan Kundera defined a European as someone who is nostalgic for Europe. But one need not share this pessimism to derive nourishment from European intellectual and cultural …

Datum publikace:
16. 4. 2021
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Eurozine

A genealogy of white privilege

On the politics of confession and guilt James Miller The discourse of white privilege is motivated by a genuinely anti-racist and democratic vision. But as a mode of confessional introspection …

Datum publikace:
10. 4. 2021
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Eurozine

China’s galaxy empire

John Keane Talk of a new Cold War between the US and China emphasizes military capacity and economic prowess. Warrior discourse presents a mono-dimensional situation in which conflict is inevitable. …

Datum publikace:
8. 4. 2021
Autor článku:
Eurozine