What does it mean to be responsible? 🔊
What does it mean to be responsible? And how has neoliberalism changed our conception of personal responsibility? Maria Armoudian speaks to Susanna Trnka about the factors that shape our lives and our ways of being: ideas, events, and what she calls...
Can international finance help protect human rights? 🔊
Can international finance systems be harnessed to protect human rights? While historically, financiers have funded some of the worst human rights abuses, finances also enabled great human leaps. David Kinley argues that it is time to alter the financial system for the...
The world’s appetite for meat is growing. How will we satisfy it?
By Devang Mehta In the near future, “meat” could mean a lot more than it does now. In the future, analysts agree that people will be producing—and eating—a lot more meat. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has found that the consumption of meat...
Colin Kaepernick & Nike: Activism, or marketing strategy?
By Claudia Russell Was Nike’s advertising campaign featuring exiled football player Colin Kaepernick a statement of political principle or a cynical marketing ploy? Claudia Russell investigates. Earlier this month, the sportswear brand Nike caused an uproar with...
How has the Declaration of Human Rights changed the world?
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. How has it changed the world as we know it? In 1948 the Declaration was signed to prevent the horrors of WWII from re-occurring. It set up human rights standards for all and is the world’s...
The loss of personhood: Identity in refugee camps
By India-Mae Osborne India-Mae Osborne looks at the harrowing and dehumanising experiences of migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers in the displaced persons camp system. When war erupted between Russia and Georgia in 2008, an estimated 150,000 refugees fled, many...
Human Rights vs. State Policy: Greece’s Refugee Containment Camps
By India-May Osborne India-Mae Osborne analyses the refugee crisis in Greece and the treatment of migrants and asylum-seekers. Over 1 million displaced peoples fled Asia, Africa and the Middle East for Europe in 2015 alone. By April of 2016, this number had increased...
Do we have a ‘violent girl’ problem? Moral panics and the policing of girlhood ▶
This presentation given by Meda Chesney-Lind critically reviews the current media constructions of criminalised girls and young women and argues that the situation is really a case study of corporate media misogyny and racism in the service of expanding the punitive...Subscribe by Email
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