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When the Palestinian literary critic and thinker Edward Said read the comic book Palestine (1997) by Joe Sacco, he called it a work of “extraordinary originality” – and…
Bias against women in academia is well-documented. Not only are female scientists underrepresented in academic institutions, particularly in higher ranks, but there are also…
“The really fascinating battles in intellectual history tend to occur when some group or movement goes on the offensive and asserts that Something Big really doesn’t actually…
Ecological collapse is hard to miss in the headlines. From deforestation to soil depletion, species extinction to climate change, the past few years have brought countless…
Viewed from Palestine, it’s hard to disagree that we’ve perhaps seen one of the most inflammatory weeks in recent memory. In just a few days, several extremely sensitive events…
Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise by Alfred Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017. 213 pp, £75 hardcover 9781107194526
Perhaps…
Healing our relationship to finance is a pre-condition for building a grassroots-led investment fund that’s focused on wellbeing.
I knew right then I was going to be schooled.…
Four million lives could hang in the balance, but how Cape Town responds to her water crisis could set the example for cities around the world.
Four million lives could hang in…
This excerpt is from Steven Pinker's new book "Enlightenment Now". The book was chosen as May's book for the World Economic Forum Book Club. Each month, a new book will be…
The estimated number of people worldwide displaced by conflict and violence reached an unprecedented 68.9m at the end of 2017.
A relatively minor fraction of these…
Neoliberal Turkey and its Discontents, Economic Policy and the Environment under Erdogan. Edited by Fikret Adaman, Bengi Akbulut and Murat Arsel. IB Taurus, London 2017.
This is a…
The threat of a bad report card from the European Union has alarmed the more than 30,000 Vietnamese commercial traditional trawlers considered at risk of being deemed…
Frontline Turkey: The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East by Ezgi Basaran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017. 224 pp, £17.99 hardcover 9781784538415
The title of most intractable…
Islamic radical groups, such as the Islamic State, seem to have become the substitute for a failed regional order and failing domestic conditions.
The Middle East and North Africa…
International Workers' Day grew out of 19th century working-class struggles in the United States for better working conditions and the establishment of an eight-hour workday. May…