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.
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.
Across Europe, forest fires are intensifying year upon year. Climate change, droughts, falling biodiversity and Eucalyptus trees are all factors that fuel the blazes. How can Europe avoid fanning the flames? Tune into this Standard Time Episode to find some answers!
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.
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.
Writing a trade book about the ‘anti-gender ideology movement’, feminist scholar Judith Butler takes on anti-intellectualism in form and content. Fear of gender diversity is confessional, they write: declaring cisgender rights under threat revokes those of all others. In contrast, gender studies opens up potential for the material and the social to be seen as one.
For a strong start into the second season, we talk about corruption in the EU. In the basement of the European Parliament we talk Italian mafia, Orbán’s son-in-law, and the misuse of public funding in member states with MEPs.
A leading Ukrainian-American writer on grace, justice, power and freedom.
Clock times and social times conflict across much of Europe. Timekeeping is a deeply political matter, and João Lipinsky Nunes of Better Times takes issue with them.
Israel has imposed different forms of settler colonialism across the map of historic Palestine, but nothing can be taken for granted. The refugee camp is itself a spatialization of a political demand, a space of waiting for an eventual return.
Billions in grants intended to help member states after COVID-19 emanate from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility. But potentially fraudulent use of funds and concerns about transparency bring the integrity of the RRF – and the EU itself – into question.
The Active Amputee blog’s Björn Eser believes that the way we go about prosthetics should change. He’s a lover of the outdoors, even more so since his amputation, but he takes issue with the limits of social and medical support for disabled people.
The first win in Germany’s state elections since the Nazi era, gains in European Parliament, another bid for power in France and new UK seats – the far right has seemingly raised its game this year to make political advances. How should progressives interpret extremist voting to counter dissatisfaction?
The two-state solution is often seen as empty talk. But it is the only alternative that offers a realistic prospect of peace in Israel-Palestine and the wider region. Putting it into practice will require not only genuine, detailed discussion, but above all a fundamental shift of mindset.
Eurocommunism at first seemed to offer a strategy for socialist transformation in keeping with the complexities of contemporary western European societies. But by the mid-1980s its momentum had dissipated, leaving communist parties in deep crisis. Despite its political failure, however, Eurocommunism could also claim important achievements.