100 Years of ‘Mein Kampf’
A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just of the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also of the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror.
A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just of the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also of the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror.
Why forest restoration projects suit companies but are counterproductive; how citizens are mobilizing to protect Europe’s woodland from the combined effort of industry and the right; and why diversity is the solution to sustainable timber.
House keys recur in the stories of Crimean Tatars and Palestinians displaced from their respective homelands in the 1940s, and Ukrainian citizens fleeing Russian invasion since 2014. Ethnographic research and discourses on art and justice show how objects emblematic of home salvage the history of exiled peoples from oblivion.
For younger Palestinians, most of them diasporic, the heroics of the past are no compensation for the absence of an organized liberation movement. Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated settlement, they are defining the goals of liberation and return anew.
As capital consolidates, culture recedes, funding vanishes, access narrows. The question persists: why fund culture at all? Cultural managers from Austria, Hungary and Serbia discuss.
On political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity.
From raising awareness of inequality to its derision, ‘woke’ has become a controversial English term. Set the debate in Wales, where English has dominated the national language, and complications increase. A cancelled Welsh author reveals how the overt politicization of literature is forcing some writers to abandon their mother tongue.
“Come Together” is founded on the principles of partnership and peer-to-peer learning among individuals within community media organizations situated in six different countries. Instead of generating entirely new knowledge, the initiative aims to unearth and leverage the existing wisdom residing within these organizations to foster innovative approaches.
Trans-disciplinarity: how bringing art into the hospital can rehumanize the patient-carer relationship; what the applied arts can bring to archaeology, and vice versa; and how the reunion of art and science can re-politicize the imagination.
Why forest restoration projects suit companies but are counterproductive; how citizens are mobilizing to protect Europe’s woodland from the combined effort of industry and the right; and why diversity is the solution to sustainable timber.
Free speech in the US: how book bans are targeting independent thought; why Trump’s assault on education imitates Erdoğan’s; what the closure of Radio Free Asia means for the region’s information space; and how American liberals can learn from Soviet dissidents.
The European Parliament elections on 9 June are a referendum on EU policy since 2019. Will voters give Europe the green light for further progress, or pull the brakes? A new Eurozine series measures the political atmosphere in the EU and its neighbourhoods at this crucial moment.
Food and water systems under pressure: as the end of abundance becomes an everyday experience in Europe, we are thinking more closely about how our food reaches the table.
Post-revolutionary Ukrainian society displays a unique mix of hope, enthusiasm, social creativity, collective trauma of war, radicalism and disillusionment. With the Maidan becoming history, the focal point ‘Ukraine in European Dialogue’ explores the new challenges facing the young democracy, its place in Europe, and the lessons it might offer for the future of the European project.
Some observers, recalling the disasters of the 1920s and 30s, are suggesting that an anti-democratic counterrevolution on a global scale has begun. But is the writing really on the wall? Or does declinism prevent us from recognizing moments of democratic renewal?