How do tourists experience life in places that they make unliveable? Discussing overtourism on today’s episode of the Standard Time talk show with a Mallorcan activist, a Central European architect and an English marketing expert. Today at 7 PM CET.
How do tourists experience life in places that they make unliveable? Discussing overtourism on today’s episode of the Standard Time talk show with a Mallorcan activist, a Central European architect and an English marketing expert. Today at 7 PM CET.
Venetian apartments lie empty: the city’s short-term holiday rental market is pushing out local residents. Can campaign groups overcome the difficulties of under-regulated housing policies and establish the rights of locals?
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.
The successful campaign of the Republican Front against the mainstreaming of the far-right proved that France’s ultra-conservative media, though on the ascendant, are still not hegemonic.
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.
How can independent journalism compete in a sector facing heightened reporting time pressures and diminishing financial returns? How can it entice writers to remain true to earning an honest living when on the brink of insolvency? An established indie in southern Italy, where political pressures are intense, shares its resilient approach.
Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh one year ago was the most recent episode in a perestroika-era conflict rooted in oligarchic nationalism and the transition to capitalism.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Eurozine monitors upcoming funding opportunities on the international level relevant to cultural journalists, such as translation funds, mobility grants and project funding.