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What’s a woman worth?: wages and democracy in Cambodia
In demanding higher wages, Cambodian women are refusing the status of the proverbial “second-class (global) citizen,” undervalued and over-determined by gender discrimination. If men take over the...
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The London evening train
A lonely train journey in London tells us much about life in the capital. Should we have a new academic field: anthropology of the train? wikimediaI come back to you filled with new sorrows and...
View ArticleCaste as a colonial creation
The discussion around UK legislation on caste discrimination is too quick to forget how much it was Britain which invented the system in the first place.In December I wrote an article discussing the...
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The future’s bright – the future’s Lidl
As Russia and the EU fight it out for Ukraine, Ola Cichowlas reports on a more positive initiative on another border, where Russians from Kaliningrad can travel to Gdansk in Poland to sample the bright...
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Charter cities in Honduras?
Are private cities the miracle cure for Honduras' surging violent crime, state violence and institutional disarray?For many Hondurans, the past few years have been among the worst in memory. In the...
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The European Union has no idea!
Forget better communication or a radical change in its course of action: what the EU really needs is a big, bold idea to move forward.Shutterstock/donskarpo. All rights reserved."If you think you lack...
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America's black-ops blackout
The Pentagon has divided the whole globe like a giant pie into six slices through U.S. Special Operations Command. And in the post-9/11 era, this secretive military's reach and ambition has only grown....
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Machismo on the move
The shifting experience of masculinity is connected to the rise of populist politics in Finland. The rise of populist movements in several European countries is a phenomenon of interest to researchers...
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A reflection on Czech Euroscepticism before the EU elections
Euroscepticism seems to be a constant in the Czech political landscape. How will this reluctance toward the EU affect the upcoming European elections?Shutterstock/Juraj Kovac. All rights reserved.The...
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The many languages native to Britain
There are around seventeen languages native to the UK. Some are on the verge of extinction. Much more should be done to save them - starting, in some cases, with the basic step of recognising that they...
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The constructive radical's guide to organisational change
Often, activists who are used to and ideologically committed to more horizontal forms of organising find themselves working for NGOs or charities with hierarchical structures. This guide provides some...
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No shortage of international complicity with Israeli occupation
Aid to Palestine is essentially palliative, intended to maintain a status quo. From that vantage point, aid seems to be remarkably complicit with continued Israeli occupation. How can funders and...
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My friend's hunger strike against force-feeding at Guantanamo
“There are places on this earth where color has absconded.” One man’s protest against force-feeding at the Guantanamo detention camp.Andrés Thomas Conteris. Credit: Taylor C. Hall. All rights...
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Europe is diverging: ignore it at your peril
In the absence of a strong and concerted political direction, the EU is undergoing a process of structural divergence, featuring diverging employment, growth, productivity, competition, and fiscal...
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Has Jack Monroe handed Sainsbury's an absolute bargain?
Food blogger and campaigner Jack Monroe has done a deal with Sainsbury's. It's good that she's donating the proceeds to good causes. But she is still helping advertise a company which is a cause of the...
View ArticleThe Department of Work and Pensions and Atos Healthcare: Still failing UK’s...
Disabled people are forced to live on the breadline for months as Atos failed to give them an appointment. Sick people are told they can work months before dying. People are driven to suicide. The...
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The Battle of Algiers: a formative influence on Moroccan cinema
Laying bare the social and economic structures of oppression to reconstruct a national psyche from the ruins – how an idea caught on. Martin Evans:What impact did the Battle of Algiers have upon...
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Why the monster Grendel has no place in activism today
I was at the anti-fracking protest at Balcombe in the UK when another activist said austerity is "a beast bigger than all of us". Then I started to see monsters everywhere. The Beowulf complex -...
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The Dutch media monopoly kills journalism in the Netherlands: internet...
Politics has marginalized the people with the crucial support of the media.wikimedia commons. Some rights reserved.We all grew up with the standard formula: journalism plays a crucial role in making...
View ArticlePapua’s response to the gift of Special Autonomy plus
Many Papuans are concerned about what the impact will be of the current president’s so-called “gift” to the province, ‘special autonomy plus’ or 'Otsus plus'.Indonesia’s easternmost province Papua has...
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