Nine years ago, a slim majority of UK voters chose to leave the European Union – without a clear plan or the tools to make it happen. Five years after the de facto departure, relations are slowly being repaired, driven in part by the increasingly unpredictable political climate in the United States.
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Four months into Trump’s second term and the president’s ICE raids on immigrants, triggering protests in Los Angeles now under troop surveillance, prove that ‘democracy is under assault’. Could a historic courtroom reprimand provide the necessary guidance for a moral reset?
An emotive rift exists between being drafted and signing up for military service. Those who prioritize family responsibilities, education and skills, and non-violence aren’t backing the opposition. Defence comes in many forms. Could lessons from Ukraine’s mobilization inform the recruitment challenges potentially facing the rest of Europe?
For those who suffered the consequences of Yalta’s division of Europe, the Helsinki Final Act brought grounds for optimism. Today, as Russia’s regressive war on Ukraine reopens old conflicts, it stands as a monument to European modernity.
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Since the mass protests in Belarus in 2020, the Lukashenka regime has undergone a totalitarian transformation. Its many instruments of repression serve a single end: to prevent civil society from becoming the driving force of another revolution.
What happens to democracy when governments court the rich and highly skilled, offering citizenship as privilege, when those in need are turned away? This year’s Speech to Europe takes the concept of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ migrants to task.
Our unjust world is full of harrowing stories desperate to be heard. Privileged responses, though well meaning, often underscore marginalization, as historic blacking up shows. Vox Feminae asks whether contemporary human libraries, providing face-to-face discourse with real-life ‘others’, help or hinder solidarity.
“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.
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Reflexive self-ethnography
springerin 1/2025
springerin looks back on 30 years of art and cultural criticism: including Boris Buden on the benevolent westernizer; Yvonne Volkart on altered artistic landscapes; Süreyyya Evren on spaces of conflict; and Hans-Christian Dany on illusions of subjectivity.
Foundry of Swedish feminism
Ord&Bild 1/2025
Ord&Bild revisits the Fogelstad Citizen School for Women and its role in the Swedish women’s movement. With articles on prominent alumni, including working-class feminist writer Moa Martinson; modernist artist and sculptor Siri Derkert; and pedagogue and civil rights campaigner Karin Stenberg.
Popular culture in flux
Varlık 5/2025
In Varlık: how northern cultural hegemony is being challenged by Bollywood, Korean television dramas, K-pop and Nollywood; also, post-emotional human relationships and the aesthetics of uncertainty.
Focal points
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?
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