http://www.eurozine.com Eurozine - the netmagazine publishes original texts on the most pressing issues of our times. We also present articles and reviews published in our partner magazines. The articles are available in several languages to open up a new public sphere for communication and debate. en netmagazine, articles and reviews Wed, 16 May 2012 23:12:22 +0200 Wed, 16 May 2012 23:12:22 +0200 http://www.eurozine.com/bravenewworld/RSS-Feed.html publick.net feed me ch.fredriksson@eurozine.com office@eurozine.com http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-16-leggewie-en.html Why does Europe find it so difficult to remember the facts of migration, both voluntary and forced? Reluctance to address the more noxious aspects of collective European identity impedes an engagement with migration history, argues Claus Leggewie. Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Claus Leggewie en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-16-bozhoviq-en.html Croatian novelist Dejan Sorak's latest protagonist, a Machiavellian secret policeman, serves to critique the political system and ideological matrixes, writes Gjorgje Bozhoviq. Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Gjorgje Bozhoviq en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-11-riabchuk-en.html Even Ukrainian cultural journals have become the target of "raiders" -- shady groups working on behalf of powerful interests who use bogus property claims to close down businesses. The biggest raider of all is the Yanukovych government itself, says Mykola Riabchuk. Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Mykola Riabchuk en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-10-ferriz-en.html The recession has returned a generation of Spaniards to a cruel reality: that they may have to live with less than their parents did. Whether they alter their expectations or try to stop the clock will be decisive, writes Ramón González Férriz. Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Ramón González Férriz en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-08-diner-en.html Jean Améry, writing in 1965, famously called torture "the essence of the Third Reich". Why did Améry, the Holocaust survivor, emphasize torture over the annihilation of the Jews? His choice can be understood in the context of debate on the Algerian war, argues Dan Diner. Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Dan Diner en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-09-eurozinerev-en.html "Mittelweg 36" re-reads Jean Améry on torture; "Free Speech Debate" takes on hate speech laws and superinjunctions; "Esprit" enters the French debate on incest; "New Humanist" says rationalism won't stop witch hunters; "Merkur" makes the case for binding quotas for women; "Wespennest" calls for more women essayists; "Osteuropa" considers the future of European security; "Lettera internazionale" decolonizes the European mind; and "Sarajevo Notebook" seeks out the golden oldies of Roma pop. Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Eurozine Review en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-08-knox-en.html Researching Yugoslav Roma music, Philip Knox and Nat Morris tour the Balkans in search of the real thing. They find it in the person of Esma Redzepova -- the self-styled Queen of Gypsy music, who claims never to have produced "anything but Roma music of the utmost purity". Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Philip Knox, Nathaniel Morris en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-08-verheyen-de.html Since when has individual achievement been considered a social virtue? Nina Verheyen sees its roots in the rejection of the traditional social code at the end of the nineteenth century and disagrees that achievement is a genuinely "bourgeois" virtue. Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Nina Verheyen de http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-08-ditum-en.html The persistence of belief in witchcraft, illustrated by the tragic case of Kristy Bamu, stems from a notion within mainstream Christianity of evil as active, independent agent, argues Sarah Ditum. Yet is another battle against religion the best response? Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Sarah Ditum en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-04-30-sturmmartin-en.html Although migration has a long history in Europe, it tends to be treated solely as a present-day issue. Why the reluctance to historicize the subject? Particularly since migration history offers a way to replace narrow, national narratives with one that is properly European. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Imke Sturm-Martin en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-05-04-newsitem-en.html In May, Zagreb will become a centre of critical thought as the Subversive Forum brings together leading political thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Samir Amin, Stéphane Hessel, David Van Reybrouck and Saskia Sassen. Eurozine is a partner of the conference. Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Eurozine News Item en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-04-24-newsitem-en.html Free Speech Debate is a multilingual and participatory website for the discussion of freedom of expression. Its aim, writes director Timothy Garton Ash, is to discover free speech norms that, in an increasingly post-western world, are genuinely universal. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Eurozine News Item en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-04-24-waldron-en.html Free speech advocates opposed to the prohibition of hate speech tend to underrate the harm hate speech causes, argues Jeremy Waldron. Where it exists, such legislation upholds a public good by protecting the basic dignitary order of society. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Jeremy Waldron en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-04-24-hare-en.html To argue for hate speech legislation on the basis that it protects the dignity of individuals is to confuse an interest with a fundamental right, argues Ivan Hare. Not only is legislation ineffective, it helps disseminate the very thing it intends to suppress. Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Ivan Hare en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2012-04-23-lerman-en.html Denunciation of Günter Grass's poem "What must be said" typifies a fundamentalist understanding of antisemitism that operates outside the realm of fact, argues Antony Lerman. If the poem is so heinous, what response would ever be appropriate to genuine antisemitism? Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0200 Antony Lerman en