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08.02.2012
Jonathan Metzger

We are not alone in the universe

A new type of political ecology may lend the Left a broad political platform. But we must first acknowledge wills that are not human. Jonathan Metzger explains why "more-than-humanism" calls for a complete rethink in policy, planning and the law. [ more ]

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07.02.2012

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08.02.2012
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Naive, the hawks would say

"Ny Tid" says that only diplomacy can defuse the Iranian bomb; "NAQD" warns that the Arab revolutions are not as feminist as the West thinks; "Blätter" wants an enquiry into institutional racism in Germany; "Letras Libres" pays its respects to a rare revolutionary; "Arena" asks the bane of the Norwegian far-Right to explain Breivik; "Res Publica Nowa" struggles for objectivity amidst the tyranny of opinion; "Merkur" is still angry with Kohl; Springerin observes how artists lead the market when it comes to precarity; "L'Homme" finds that international development begins in the home; and "Vikerkaar" reads 150 years of Estonian thanatography.

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Jonathan Metzger

We are not alone in the universe

A new type of political ecology may lend the Left a broad political platform. But we must first acknowledge wills that are not human. Jonathan Metzger explains why "more-than-humanism" calls for a complete rethink in policy, planning and the law. [more]

08.02.2012


Erik Hammar

Europe's narrative bias

Democracy, humanism and diversity have little to do with a "European inheritance". Yet EU cultural policy instrumentalizes cultural heritage to promote common identity. This narrative bias needs to be challenged, says Erik Hammar. [more]

26.01.2012


Anna Hellgren

Drawing borders within borders

Abortion is still illegal in a number of EU countries and LGBT people are publicly harassed. The conservatives of Europe favour policies that limit sexual and reproductive freedom. What are progressives doing about this? asks Anna Hellgren. [more]

20.01.2012


Slavenka Drakulic

Censorship does not do justice to victims of mass rape

Attempts to prevent the shooting of a film about mass rape in Bosnia equalled an attempt at censorship, argues Slavenka Drakulic: this kind of response perpetuates misunderstandings about war crimes and overlooks the real problems facing Bosnian victims of mass rape today. [Norwegian and Swedish versions added] [more]

15.02.2011


Karl Palmås

The defence minister's new philosophy

In the panspectric order, society is seen in terms of information traffic. It is not individuals that are observed, as in the panopticon, but the mass. Degrees of corporate and state surveillance are unprecedented; yet panspectricism also brings new forms resistance. [more]

12.02.2010


Felix Holmgren

Kigali's ambassador-at-large

How Philip Gourevitch wrote the victors' history book

With his book about the Rwandan genocide, Philip Gourevitch has perhaps more than anyone influenced the way the conflict is viewed in the US and Europe. But his view is clouded by over-simplifications and a glorified view of the Kagame government, writes Felix Holmgren. [more]

15.01.2010


Felix Holmgren, Marie Béatrice Umutesi

The forgotten slaughter

An interview with Marie Béatrice Umutesi

Two years after the Rwandan genocide, refugees living in camps in Zaire were systematically slaughtered -- an event the rest of the world has chosen to forget. The international community first betrayed the Tutsis, then the Hutus, says former refugee Marie Béatrice Umutesi. [more]

15.01.2010


Jonas Ebbesson

Environmental injustice

Environmental justice halts at national boundaries, ignoring the correlation between environmental harm and other social factors. A cosmopolitan approach is required that considers the situation of individuals in cross-border contexts, argues Jonas Ebbesson. [more]

16.12.2009


Timothy Snyder

Holocaust: The ignored reality

Auschwitz and the Gulag are generally taken to be adequate or even final symbols of the evil of mass slaughter. But they are only the beginning of knowledge, a hint of the true reckoning with the past still to come, writes Timothy Snyder. [more]

18.02.2010


Nancy Fraser, Alfredo Gomez-Muller, Gabriel Rockhill

Global justice and the renewal of critical theory

A dialogue with Nancy Fraser

The fall of communism sucked the energy out of social-egalitarian movements, argues Nancy Fraser. Yet it also brought renewals. In the era of globalization, the campaign for redistribution concentrates increasingly on inequalities between, rather than within, nations. [more]

15.12.2009


Devrim Mavi, Pernilla Ouis, Anne Sofie Roald, Per Wirtén

They removed the veil

Pernilla Ouis and Anne Sofie Roald adopted the headscarf back in the 1980s at the same time as political Islam began to grow. Now they are part of a global trend towards secularization in which more and more women are shedding their headscarves and veils. [more]

18.07.2008


Magnus Wennerhag

The politics of the global movement

In an extract from his new book "Social Movement", Swedish sociologist Magnus Wennerhag argues that the global justice movement differs from the '68 protests in being more political and aimed at international institutions and a globalized democracy. [more]

02.05.2008


Katrine Kielos

This Bud's for you

Ronald Reagan's ability to get working men to vote for policies clearly not in their interests casts a long shadow over US politics post 9/11. In the US presidential race, winning the masculinity battle will be crucial, writes Katrine Kielos. [more]

07.03.2008


Per Wirtén

Unacknowledged, unseen, unmentioned

Poverty in Europe

Impoverished German children dream of the US; one Greek person in four is in arrears; sixty per cent of the poor in Romania have outdoor toilets. Cracks are appearing in Europe's image of itself as the egalitarian alternative to the United States. [more]

25.01.2008


Claus Leggewie

Between national church and religious supermarket

Muslim organizations in Germany and the problem of representation

In Germany, "cultural Muslims" have challenged the authority of conservative Muslim organizations to represent "the Muslim community". The problem of representation has to do with the German state's corporatist approach to negotiation, writes Claus Leggewie. [more]

23.01.2008


Per Wirtén

Doing the world differently

In defence of multiculturalism

Multiculturalism, long the bête noire of the Right, has come under increasing attack from the Left. But whether multiculturalism poses a threat to Enlightenment values or not, the real debate must be over how we interpret the term itself. [more]

11.07.2007


Edda Manga, Saskia Sassen

The global laissez-passer: a US passport

An interview with Saskia Sassen

When Columbian soldiers were threatening to kill her, Saskia Sassen desperately hung on to her American passport. She acted then as an unquestioning member of a world order she usually criticises, one in which some passports provide freedom of access and others do not. Edda Manga talks to Saskia Sassen about "cheap politics" and the deconstruction of patriotism. [more]

16.02.2003


Per Wirtén

Free the nation - cosmopolitanism now!

"Cosmopolite" was once a pejorative code word used to denounce Jews, anarchists, pacifists and others who refused to accept the call for fixed borders coming from the nation-states. Now, in another historic turning-point, cosmopolitanism is coming back. [more]

19.01.2003


Daniele Archibugi, Iris Marion Young

Envisioning a Global Rule of Law

Could a different response to the attacks of September 11, based on the rule of law and international co-operation been more effective in the long run and have opened a way to a more just and stable world order? [more]

14.06.2002


Samir Amin, Michael Hardt, Camilla A Lundberg, Magnus Wennerhag

How Capitalism went Senile

Is capitalism losing its progressive dimension, turning destructive instead? Michael Hardt and Samir Amin, two of the main critics of today's capitalism, talk about the future of the system, the movements resisting it and the alternatives they propose. [more]

22.08.2002


Ulf B Andersson, Eric Östberg

Global Law

Human Rights in the Shadow of the "War on Terrorism"

While the "War on Terrorism" puts important principles of justice into question we finally see an International Criminal Court in the making. Eric Östberg, former prosecutor at the Hague Tribunal, talks about rights and obligations applying to all peoples and all their leaders. [more]

21.03.2002


Per Wirtén

The New Paradox

USA: just a country among others?

We may, writes Per Wirtén, be standing before a big paradox: the globalization that many Europeans view as Americanization might in fact lead to a situation where the USA is transformed from the one and only empire to just one country among others. [more]

14.01.2002


 

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Björn Elmbrant

Whose Europe?

The euro will be brought down by a European Tea Party-type movement, predicts Björn Elmbrant. But the EU has a role to play beyond the euro. Instead of a neoliberal politics of austerity we need a Marshall plan for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. [more]

17.01.2012


Magnus Linton

Papperskonspirationen

I Colombia iscensätts just nu den perfekta sammansvärjningen mot världens hårdaste abortlagar. Global rätt slår ut nationell. Kanske. För att lyckas gäller det att inte se ut som feminister. [more]

17.06.2005


Kristina Hultman

Med ryggen mot världen

Sverige har glömt sin historia, EU sina principer. Svenska politiker diskuterar gärna trafficking och prostitution, men inte abort. När får vi se en globalisering av aborträtten -- och en svensk aborträtt för alla? [more]

16.06.2005


Anna Dahlberg

What would Jesus drive?

Konkurrensen om oljan kan leda till ett "energins kalla krig" mellan Kina och USA. Anna Dahlberg jagar nytt tänk bland Amerikas nykonservativa, svenska miljövänner och terrorns strateger. [more]

16.06.2005


Magnus Linton

Fjärde vägen

Zapatero är mannen som blivit kristna högerns lysande motpol -- både hemma och globalt. Viva España! [more]

16.06.2005


Per Wirtén

Radikalismens fantasyvärld

När vänstervågen äntligen börjar rulla upp i strukturer och samtiden känns mognare än någonsin springer radikaler in i barnkammaren. Det är ett sorgligt reprisbeteende. [more]

16.06.2005


Magnus Linton

Myllrets hjärta

Brasiliens nye president Lula har blivit en hoppets symbol. Men bakom honom finns en helt ny politik i Latinamerika där starka sociala rörelser och tro på demokrati har ersatt den gamla gerillaromantiken. Magnus Linton rapporterar från en kontinent där vänstern vaknat. Igen. [more]

15.04.2003


Kanan Makiya

Terroristerna är min skugga

Usama bin Ladens terrorister skapades i skuggan av min egen generations misslyckanden. I stället för en demokratisk anda bidrog vi till en offermentalitet där drömmarna alltid krossades av någon annan, oftast USA. Nu krävs ett jihad för vår egen räddning, skriver exilirakiern Kanan Makiya i en uppgörelse med den arabiska vänstern. [more]

10.09.2002


Dan Jönsson

Skrattet från höger

Så enkelt vann populismen

På nytt går ett spöke genom Europa. Men vilket och varför? Dan Jönsson frilägger rötterna till den europeiska högerpopulismen och ser gemensamma nämnare som har väldigt lite med invandring att göra. [more]

01.06.2002


Mats Wingborg

Fattigdomens framtid

Har den globala kapitalismen förbättrat eller försämrat livet för världens allra fattigaste? Arena bad Mats Wingborg berätta sanningen om världens utveckling och svaret blev: visst har det blivit bättre - men inte på grund av globaliseringen. [more]

01.06.2002


Erik Berggren

Så ska stenkastningen förstås

Jan Guillou, Johan Ehrenberg och Arenas redaktörer - alla hör till den samling vänstermän som var olyckligt snabba att fördöma stenkastarna i Göteborg. Nu har ett helt år gått utan att någon vågat se våldet som en fullt begriplig reaktion på ett EU som satt hela vår demokrati på spel, skriver Erik Berggren. [more]

01.06.2002


Magnus Linton

Glädjens baksida

I februari hölls World Social Forum i brasilianska Porto Alegre. Magnus Linton var där och såg världens samlade alternativrörelser göra stor succé på ytan av två lika stora konflikter. [more]

04.04.2002


Håkan Thörn

Blågul identitet

Folkhemmets behov av konsensus

Det moderna folkhemmet var i allra högsta grad ett nationellt projekt. Håkan Thörn menar att det byggde på en nationell identitet med en konsensus så stark att dess chauvinism blivit osynlig för invånarna. [more]

04.04.2002


Robert A Dahl

Europeisk federalism - glöm det!

Demokratins begränsningar

Filosofen Jürgen Habermas har argumenterat för en europeisk författning. Han är ute och cyklar, hävdar statsvetarnas statsvetare - Robert A Dahl. Den amerikanske professorn argumenterar mot tron på att postnationell demokrati är möjlig. Visionärerna leker farliga lekar med mycket explosiva krafter, skriver Dahl. [more]

19.02.2002


Ingemar Lindberg

Har världsordningen blivit för gammal?

Kapitalismen är på väg att förgöra sig själv, hävdas i den autonoma vänsterns nya Bibel Empire. Ingemar Lindberg har läst. [more]

10.01.2002


Per Wirtén

En skön känsla av utopisk energi

Göteborg och Genua har efterlämnat oro, förvirring och även en känsla av pessimism eller till och med uppgivenhet. Begripligt med tanke på våldet – polisens och svartskjortornas. Men obefogat i ett större perspektiv, menar Per Wirtén. [more]

10.01.2002


Mary Kaldor

Slutet för nationalmyten

Global politik viktigare nu än någonsin

Talibanregimen föll. Och visst kan det vara en fungerande strategi att ösa in pengar i repressiva stater och döda redan kända terrorister - i några år. Men om USA fortsätter att agera som en nationalstat är framtiden sannerligen dyster. En genuin global politik är nu inte bara önskvärd i sig, utan helt avgörande för fred, skriver Mary Kaldor. [more]

09.01.2002


Per Wirtén

Världspolitik utan världsregering

Det finns en del radikala tankar om europeisk demokrati efter att nationalstaten tappat greppet. Per Wirtén sorterar och diskuterar de starka viljor som just nu florerar på kontinenten - och i Sverige. [more]

09.01.2002


Håkan Thörn

Göteborg - New York tur/retur

Rörelser i världssamhället

En del människor binder via sina kringflackande liv ihop sociala rörelser. Kampen mot kolonialismen, 60-talets kampanjer mot apartheid, dagens globaliseringskritiska rörelse - allt är länkat i både tid och rum skriver Håkan Thörn och berättar en ny historia om politisk och kulturell globalisering. [more]

09.01.2002


Björn Hettne

Detta måste göras

Argument för en världsordning

Vedergällningen kom och världen möbleras om inför våra ögon. Det finns gott om ansatser och ambitioner nu. Men vilka är genuina och vilka är falska? Björn Hettne, professor i freds- och utvecklingsforskning, argumenterar här för den enda världsordning han tror kan få världssamhället på fötter igen - äkta multilateralism. [more]

09.01.2002


Magnus Linton

Radikala européers historiska ansvar

Magnus Linton läser en lysande bok om krig. Det militära och de andra. [more]

09.01.2002


Magnus Linton

Attac - murbräcka i svensk EU-debatt?

Svensk vänster är fortfarande starkt präglad av EU-motstånd. Vänsterpartiet och miljöpartiet vill lämna unionen. Andra radikala röster ser EU som politikens nya hopp. Attacs oerhörda framgångar kommer stärka en av dessa sidor. Frågan är vilken. [more]

08.01.2002


Jürgen Habermas

Därför behöver Europa en författning

EU är förlamat. Gång på gång bromsas unionen av att medlemsländer bedriver politiskt spel med projektets konstitutionella knepigheter. Några tunga politiker har tagit till orda för att råda bot - Joschka Fischer, Gerhard Schröder, Lionel Jospin. I en ny essä argumenterar den politiske filosofen Jürgen Habermas i ett kontroversiellt ärende: en författning för Europa. [more]

07.01.2002


 

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The EU: Broken or just broke?

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Brought on by the global economic recession, the eurocrisis has been exacerbated by serious faults built into the monetary union. In a new Eurozine focal point, contributors discuss whether the EU is not only broke, but also broken -- and if so, whether Europe's leaders are up to the task of fixing it. [more]

European histories (2): Concord and conflict

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Broadening the question of a common European narrative beyond the East-West divide. How are contested interpretations of historical and recent events activated in the present, uniting and dividing European societies? [more]

Changing media -- Media in change

Media change is about more than just the "newspaper crisis" and the iPad: property law, privacy, free speech and the functioning of the public sphere are all affected. On a field experiencing profound and constant transformation. [more]

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Katajun Amirpur
Islam and democracy
The history of an approximation

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In Iran, official revolutionary dogma has obliged "post-Islamist" philosophers to provide profound justifications for Islam's compatibility with democracy. Katajun Amirpur puts contemporary Iranian thinking on religion and politics in the context of Khomeini-era anti-westernism. [more]

Per Wirten
Where were you when Europe fell apart?

Too many Europeans have too long avoided the question of Europe, says Swedish writer Per Wirten. To prevent the EU from turning into a "post-democratic regime of bureaucrats", intellectuals need to stop mumbling and take the fear of Europe seriously. [more]

Valeriu Nicolae
Change must start from within
Roma integration: EU rhetoric and institutional reality

European member states are answerable to the European Commission regarding the integration of Roma. But what are the chances of national policies succeeding if structural anti-Roma racism exists within European institutions themselves? [more]

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Europe talks to Europe

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Nationalism in Belgium might be different from nationalism in Ukraine, but if we want to understand the current European crisis and how to overcome it we need to take both into account. The debate series "Europe talks to Europe" is an attempt to turn European intellectual debate into a two-way street. [more]

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Steve Sem-Sandberg
Even nameless horrors must be named

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It is high time to lift the aesthetic state of emergency that has surrounded witness literature for so long, writes Steve Sem-Sandberg. It is not important who writes, nor even what their motives are. What counts is the "literary efficiency". [more]

Literary perspectives
The re-transnationalization of literary criticism

Eurozine's series of essays aims to provide an overview of diverse literary landscapes in Europe. Covered so far: Croatia, Sweden, Austria, Estonia, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Hungary. [more]

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Mykola Riabchuk
Tymoshenko: Wake-up call for the EU

The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reformist has been perceived as acceptance of a range of repressions, argues Mykola Riabchuk. [more]

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Changing media, Media in change
The 23rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Linz, 13-16 May 2011

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The 23rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Linz, Austria, in May 2011. Under the heading "Changing media, Media in change", the conference explored the challenges and transformations facing media in the wake of the digital revolution. [more]

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