Music and Resistance
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Hostis Humani Generis – enemy of all mankind?
Does the legal term Hostis Humani Generis (the enemy of all mankind), create an extralegal space where the assassination of terrorists can be seen as legitimate?
Comics: unrepentantly in the gutter?
A conversation about comics as a scurrilous gutter medium, about Milo Minara’s Spiderwoman, about Judge Dredd and Watchmen, how the work of Hogarth and Gilray speaks across the centuries – and much more…
Ecofeminism
“Nature has been defined as a woman, and both nature and women were then defined into objectification and therefore into objects of violence. Ecofeminism is a celebration of the creativity of nature and the creativity of women,” says Dr Vandana Shiva, world…
Virtual Economies – what can they teach us about the real world?
If economics is about ‘choice under constraint’, then virtual economies are all around us in the digital sphere – retweeting, clicks on facebook, bitcoin, game play. Can our behaviour in virtual economies teach us anything about ‘real world’ economics?
Monsoon rains down by 37%
With each monsoon season India waits with bated breath for forecasts from the India Meteorological Department and other international forecasting agencies. This year’s forecast suggested a weakened monsoon, and sure enough for five weeks the monsoon has failed to provide the deluge…
Budget airlines take on the transatlantic route
The north Atlantic is one of the most lucrative and highly competitive airline markets in the world. Since the late 1940s numerous airlines have attempted, with varying degrees of success, to operate profitable commercial services on routes between Europe and…
The diplomatic power of sport
With the football World Cup almost upon us, it is worth reflecting on the power of sport in diplomacy. In 2009 Victor Cha, the former director of Asian affairs for the White House, argued that sport matters because it can…
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the study of music in culture, and music as culture. Whether it is gamelan, techno, Bollywood or English folk ethnomusicologists want to understand the music – and the society that made it.
Seeing is believing: The politics of the visual
We know images can be deceptive, but we live and work in constant denial of this knowledge. In a media saturated world, we act as if we are immune to their effects.
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