Decadent, transgressive, colonial, queer – these are just some of the adjectives one could use to describe late-nineteenth-century Baltic-German literature. Vikerkaar’s latest issue on queer histories appears simultaneously with an exhibit of Baltic-German queer art at Tallinn’s KUMU Art Museum....
‘When so many newspapers lean to the left, don’t we have the right to have one on the centre-right?’ In an appearance on the 8 o’clock news show on France’s TF1 TV channel on 23 August last year, Nicolas Sarkozy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54RZIQPXacg Approximately 80 billion pieces of clothing are consumed every year, with almost 85% of that amount ending up in landfills annually. This impacts the entire globe with increased carbon emissions and toxic waste dumped into bodies of water. The...
On the 26 January, the United Nations’ highest court in The Hague, the International Court of Justice, found it plausible that Israel’s violence in Gaza amounts to genocide. This ruling corroborated what Gazan journalists had been documenting for months at...
Human life and existence are inherently inter and transgenerational, transcending spatial boundaries. They are rooted in relationships of care and dialogues that defy the prevailing racialised and militarised geography and individualistic paradigm of the imperial-neoliberal order. Autobiography, in this context,...
Our episodes are also available as a podcast on the Cultural Broadcasting Archive! Listen here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GScDV3PP_VQ The 8-hour work day isn’t some natural truth, but a result of a long bloody struggle for labour rights since the 1880s. Its achievements...
In New Eastern Europe, Jennifer S. Wistrand reflects on the human consequences of three decades of turbulence in the South Caucasus, where the conflicts in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh have forced hundreds of thousands of people into internal displacement...
Georgia, a country whose democratic system has been shaken lately, is now facing a critical test of its democracy as it gears up for the 2024 parliamentary elections. The elections will determine if the Georgian Dream party (GD) stays in...
Created in 2010, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) is an international grassroots solidarity movement working to end the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Their new mission – to deliver 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza – has been...
In Ireland, Austria and the Netherlands, the far right is expected to make significant gains at the June 9 European Parliament elections, capitalizing on public frustration with mainstream parties’ responses to crises faced by the EU since the previous EP...
