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Reflecting on their experiences of being researchers from the Global South working on the Global South from institutions in the Global North, Ilaha Abasli and Ahmed Elassal discuss how established research methods and training need to take account of more dynamic and situated researcher identities. "Why are you not doing research in your home country?", … Continued

In India, recognition of the role of gender identities in preservation of human rights, both in the context of judicial interpretation and cultural acceptance, began to gain significance since the verdict of NALSA v. Union of India came out in 2014. However, India falls short in addressing the emerging intersectional tangents in the arena of … Continued

Catholics are poor and Protestants keep their toasters in the cupboard? What else can we learn from Derry Girls about polarised identities and the impact of a long history of conflict? Bethany Corbett and Jocelyn Dautel have some answers for us. What can we learn from the hit show, Derry Girls? (If you have not seen … Continued

Most areas in North Jakarta are undoubtedly experiencing unprecedented environmental, social and economic pressures. But does a language of crisis really bring us closer to the lived world? The author invites us to look beyond mere subsistence and pay attention to the ways in which communities in vulnerable conditions create novel social relations, identities, and … Continued

Contract law in Europe currently has little grasp on the balancing of interests of social media users, their heirs, platforms, and society at large, which means that platforms play a key role in determining how digital legacies are handled. A human rights perspective can offer starting points for reforms that do more justice to the protection of digital identities of social media users.

A Dialogic Turn in Online Far-Right Activism Far-right groups, which encompass a broad plethora of cognate paramilitary groups, political parties and protest movements with nativist, authoritarian and populist policy platforms (Mudde 2007; Carter 2018), have increasingly been able to mobilise, exploit, and weaponise the online space for activism and their campaigns. Recent research suggests that such groups have been able to exercise an 'opportunistic pragmatism' when using online platforms, creating new hubs of convergence and influencing elections in countries like Germany, Italy and Sweden (Davey & Ebner 2017 & 2018; Colliver et al 2018). Just as examples of recent far-right successes in the electoral arena now abound, such cases also demonstrate a shift away from parochial concerns in using the ...

The Afghan Taliban has vehemently objected to the lest UN report, as it punches gaping holes into the Taliban's narrative that it does not shelter and support foreign terror groups. However, the presence of the TTP, Al Qaeda and a host of other terror groups in Afghanistan is undeniable.
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by Jonas Biel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Europe's ability to respond effectively to "polycrisis" (Zeitlin & Nicoli 2019) relies in part on a shared European identity among its citizens (e.g., Fuchs 2012, Schmidt 2013). European identities can emerge in a variety of ways, including from the reception of Europe-related information and personal transnational experiences with […]
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by Jonas Biel (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) Europe's ability to respond effectively to "polycrisis" (Zeitlin & Nicoli 2019) relies in part on a shared European identity among its citizens (e.g., Fuchs 2012, Schmidt 2013). European identities can emerge in a variety of ways, including from the reception of Europe-related information and personal transnational experiences with […]
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From a statement today: Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term. This decision was made after the two groups repeatedly violated University policies related to holding campus events, culminating in an unauthorized event Thursday afternoon that proceeded despite warnings and included threatening…

One way to visualize: Disposition of some US naval groups (CSGs, etc.), as of Nov. 2. Source: USNI. Highlighting the seriousness of the situation, it has been two decades since two CSGs have operated in the Mediterranean simultaneously; and two decades prior to that for the previous episode. Another: Figure 1: VIX (left scale, blue), […]

Since 2014, militant groups from Russia, Belarus, Chechnya, and elsewhere have established themselves as allies of Ukraine in its fight against Russia and its aligned forces. Though alignment with these groups presents clear benefits in the near term, Kyiv should be cautious since these groups could turn on Ukraine at any time should their interests no longer align.

I draw on Nora Berenstain's concept of "epistemic exploitation" and present a series of precisions to consider the asymmetric relation between marginalized groups and public and private institutions. I am particularly interested in those interactions in which the former are called upon to collaborate, under conditions that sustain and reinforce the asymmetry, with institutional projects that will affect their communities and will be executed with or without their participation. I will focus on trans groups, but epistemic extortion is not exclusive to them.
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Herzfeld's model of subversive archaism offers us an example of understanding how marginalised groups challenge and subvert authority. Herzfeld is not proposing that any given group needs to fit neatly into the category of subversive archaists, but rather how some groups reach back into the past to offer an alternative future, writes Olivia Porter, reviewing Subversive Archaism: … Continued

Mr Chakrabortty applies his well known economic perspicacity to the Royal Mail: So this is how the Royal Mail ends: killed by lying politicians, lousy managers and ruthless moneymenAditya ChakraborttyBarring the occasional rhetorical twist any one of us can predict how the other 1200 words go. Sigh. Now given that Royal Mail is politically, government, influenced we're not going to argue that the issue has been perfectly managed. But the one bit - a really rather important bit we feel - that Aditya doesn't remark upon is that all mail systems have exactly this same problem. We out here are simply sending fewer letters. For Royal Mail, and from different data series so perhaps not entirely comparable, some 20 billion or so in 2004, 8 billion in 2021. No, the collapse did not come as a result of privatisation. Any chart wouldn't, in fact, be able to visually spot the date of that privatisation. Rather, it tracks the rollout of broadband internet and then smartphones. The background technology has changed. This produces a vast fiscal or economic problem. The cost of Royal Mail is near entirely the fixed cost of the network. The marginal cost of another letter is as close to zero as makes no difference. That also means that the marginal revenue loss of one less letter feeds near entirely through to the bottom line - the costs of the network have not fallen but revenue has. Actual serious people have been chewing over this. Perhaps the overhead cost can be reduced by reducing that universal service obligation? Maybe. Or possibly the cost for each letter should triple to cover the lower volume. Maybe. Or some vast subsidy to retain the system. Maybe.But this problem is not a feature of Royal Mail alone. Every postal system is facing exactly the same problem. It's therefore not a point of the ownership or management structure of Royal Mail. Which is, sadly, exactly the one point which Mr. Chakrabortty does not examine nor explain, instead blaming everything upon the capitalists and privatisation and, and etc. Which is a pity. It would have been possible to find out about this if he'd simply read his own newspaper. This is a good explainer for example. At which point we think someone should give Aditya a prize. Imagine, a Guardian column which could be factually improved merely by reading The Guardian?