Turkish media through the window of an independent journalism platform

State control of the Turkish media is exercised through subordinate and heavily concentrated ownership structures. With barely room left for independent outlets, digital platforms have become a means for journalists in Turkey to continue to provide reliable information.

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Sustaining journalism

The 32nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals

How can independent media in Europe survive in an increasingly difficult public sphere? The Eurozine network gathered in Warsaw from 11–13 October to discuss how media consumption shifts and political changes are affecting cultural journalists and audiences today.

Cover for: Spirals of radicalization

Hamas’s act of terror a year ago and Israel’s devastating military response have triggered a series of epochal shifts. Globally, the West is losing support; while socially, the escalation in the Middle East is causing an ever-sharper polarization.

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Cover for: Beyond the canon

Beyond the canon

Positionen 140 (2024)

Questioning the canon of electronic music history: on feminist debate between integrating women composers and anti-mainstreaming; the Danish composer who wrote her place in the chronicles. Also, empathetic yet non-romantic environmental sound art in Finland.

Cover for: A common oppressor

A common oppressor

NAQD 43 (2024)

The lurid past of French colonial expulsion and incarceration: of Algerians sent to French Guiana; Jews interned in camps termed ‘battalions’; and French colonized peoples replacing convicts as forced labour.

Cover for: Capitalism’s misunderstood architects

Capitalism’s misunderstood architects

Kritika & Kontext 61 (2024)

Reappraising Keynes and Hayek: cartoon figureheads on the frontlines of an ideological war; clearing the ground for an honest debate by debunking Keynesian and Hayekian myths; and the paradox of Hayek’s theory of markets as information networks.

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Cover for: Mood of the Union 2024

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.

Cover for: Breaking bread

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.

Cover for: Ukraine in European dialogue

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.

Cover for: The writing on the wall

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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Cover for: Eurozine Funding Opportunities Outlook

Eurozine monitors upcoming funding opportunities on the international level relevant to cultural journalists, such as translation funds, mobility grants and project funding.


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