Politics & Society Sport and the Power of Conflict Sport brings the world together – or not? Incidents at the Olympic Games, Euro 2020 and other events have lately shown us the other, divisive side of sport.
Politics & Society White Freedom Invades the US Capitol The “defense of freedom” by rioters at the US Capitol was in fact a battle for white freedom – a struggle to preserve white privilege and racial dominance over a changing nation.
Politics & Society Iconoclasm: From Post-Socialist Yugoslavia to Black Lives Matter Against the backdrop of the ongoing protests across the United States and Europe to denounce structural racism, take down its monuments, and call for a critical postcolonial confrontation with history, Gal Kirn draws connections between the present moment and the memory culture of the new states of former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.
Arts & Humanities How Co-Witnessing Could Transform the Post-Pandemic World Of the metaphors circulating in the media to describe the Covid-19 pandemic, the one I find most helpful deploys the image that the whole world is experiencing the same storm, but groups of us are in very different kinds of boats trying to weather it.