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.
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Since the collapse of Novi Sad’s train station in November, student-led protests have erupted across Serbia, inspiring a nationwide movement against corruption.
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.
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.
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After six months of protests, there are grounds for hope that the tide is turning in favour of the Serbian student movement: first, the unification of the opposition around the movement’s demand for new elections; second, the emergence of a strategic alliance between the students and the EU.
The psychological toll of living in a warzone is causing children in Gaza to lose their ability to communicate. But the immediate focus on survival means that children are not receiving the therapy they urgently need.
Hollywood action movies present pumped-up models of masculinity. Narrative arcs devoid of rest or recovery depict the body as an inexhaustible machine. Pushing for mastery over one’s own body can be similarly unrelenting, especially when the determination for self-optimization, despite burnout, keeps driving us on like neoliberal heroes.
“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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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.
Fragmented Middle East
La Revue nouvelle 1/2025
In La Revue nouvelle: Why peace in Lebanon requires understanding Hezbollah; which way the Iranian regime will turn; and whether more international law means greater lawfulness.
Hard-bodied heroes
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In rekto:verso: what the body of the action hero says about relations of power; why yoga’s discourse of accessibility rings hollow; and whether fitness practitioners should really be reading Mishima.
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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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