Nov 29, 2022 | Business & Economics, Ngā Ara Whetū, Politics & Society
“Traffic Jam. New Zealand style.” by Bernard Spragg is marked with CC0 1.0 Last month, New Zealand was recognised internationally for being the first country planning to charge farmers for agricultural emissions. Meanwhile New Zealand’s farmers...
Nov 11, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Ian Hughes “The last four years provide a roadmap that shows how the personal and the political can combine to disastrous effect.” Politicians who live in an angry narcissistic fog pose a clear threat to democracy and peace, and Donald Trump is a...
Oct 24, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
How important is historical memory in politics? What can we learn about how our past memories are manipulated to change current and future politics? What can we learn from memory entrepreneurs in places like the former Yugoslavia? How did they try to change...
Dec 20, 2018 | Politics & Society
How much do emotions impact or even dictate political outcomes like ethnic violence, wars, or even genocides? That is a key question posed by international relations theorists, political scientists, psychologists, and communications scholars. Where do these emotions...
Dec 11, 2018 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
Scientists are finding more and more evidence that human behaviour is not rational, not conscious, and maybe completely programmed without our rational thinking. How does the unconscious mind and biological predispositions affect political outcomes and prejudice...