Eurozine

23/07/2025

Engineered flooding displaces communities, eradicating the landmarks of family histories. When little remains, narratives about who controls water provide telling pointers – feature films raise complex questions about industrialization, linguistic minorities, and the matriarchal versus youthful masculinity.

Engineered flooding displaces communities, eradicating the landmarks of family histories. When little remains, narratives about who controls water provide telling pointers – feature films raise complex questions about industrialization, linguistic minorities, and the matriarchal versus youthful ma...

21/07/2025

Since the Belavezha Accords were signed in 1991, revanchist Russian politicians and cultural commentators have lamented the former Soviet Union’s disintegration. Provocative statements and legislative scheming from the 1990s reveal how incremental manoeuvres paved the way for today’s colonialist drive disguised as integration.

Since the Belavezha Accords were signed in 1991, revanchist politicians and cultural commentators in Russia have lamented the former Soviet Union’s disintegration. Piecing together provocative statements and legislative scheming from the 1990s reveals how incremental manoeuvres paved the way for P...

16/07/2025

Forget aliens. Astrobiologists need first establish what constitutes life on Earth. Should existing definitions stretch to ‘degrees of life’ like decomposition and viruses, asks David Dunér via Glänta.

Forget aliens. Astrobiologists, in search of life on other planets, need first establish what constitutes life on Earth. Should existing definitions stretch to ‘degrees of life’ – what is ‘more’ and ‘less’ alive – like decomposition and viruses? And how many ‘Earth twins’ would i...

14/07/2025

A constrained mother tongue is resilient in recalled memory. Those who no longer speak Belarusian tenderly piece together often painful cultural threads, processing trauma to keep their ‘mova’ alive. Olga Bubich via IWM - Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen

A constrained mother tongue is resilient in recalled memory. Those who no longer speak Belarusian tenderly piece together often painful cultural threads, processing trauma to keep their ‘mova’ alive.

11/07/2025

European railways are often praised for their comprehensive continental coverage, yet it frequently falls short of meeting the evolving needs of the public. This episode of the Standard Time Talk Show discusses public investment and corruption, and how railway systems could transform. Link in the comment 👇

08/07/2025

To understand the appeal of the far right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship, writes David Wengrow

04/07/2025

‘The Syrian tragedy cannot be summed up simply as the murder of hundreds of thousands of human beings; it also involved the denial of any meaning to the extreme suffering of the Syrian people.’

Yassin al-Haj Saleh in interview with R***e Esprit

02/07/2025

Cultural humanitarian aid risks diminishing complexity of creative work to ethnic kitsch: nationality rated over content. And only art portraying trauma cuts it. Soon thereafter, Western interest fades. Could meaningfully decolonizing Ukraine lie with other formerly colonized communities?

Cultural humanitarian aid risks diminishing the complexity of creative work to ethnic kitsch: well-meaning initiatives rate nationality over content. And when the work does receive critical attention, only art that portrays trauma cuts it. Soon thereafter, Western interest fades. Could answers for m...

30/06/2025

Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a such a high benchmark of societal acceptance? Vox Feminae investigates the history of asexuality and aromanticism: pathologized by psychologists and medical professionals, even at times minoritized within LGBTQIA+ communities.

Should sexual relationships, with all their complications, really be a such a high benchmark of societal acceptance? Vox Feminae investigates the history of asexuality and aromanticism: pathologized by psychologists and medical professionals, even at times minoritized within LGBTQIA+ communities.

27/06/2025

The Serbian student movement symbolizes a generational shift and national renewal. For the first time in years, people are seeing a future for themselves and their children. By Branka Ćurčić

25/06/2025

The decisive sex-change moment in movies, revealing a dramatic transformation, is far from reality. Transgender people face not only long assessment & surgery waiting lists but also bureaucratic inconsistencies when reassigning legal gender across countries, undermining their well-being & safety.

The decisive sex-change moment in movies, revealing a dramatic transformation, is far from reality. Transgender people face not only long assessment and surgery waiting lists but also bureaucratic hurdles when reassigning legal gender across countries, undermining their well-being and safety at a de...

24/06/2025

With geopolitical deadlock and the widening of the regional conflict, prospects of an end to Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its people are as distant as ever. But momentum for a ceasefire, and even statehood, would likely be stronger were Palestinian political factions not themselves still divided. By Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh.