Vesa Koskimaa and Lauri Rapeli This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is [...]
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Rights, Visibility and Disability in Cultural Spaces
Ali Eisa I stood in Parliament Square on the 6th June 2020, amongst thousands of people demanding justice and visibility [...]
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Democracy for What? Or Who’s Afraid of the End of the World as We Know It?
Andréa Gill In a recent interview following the 2019 launch of his book, Ideias para Adiar o Fim do Mundo (Ideas [...]
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Ley Lines and Declarations
Gita Hashemi Between 2015 and 2016, I engaged in a two-part performance project entitled Declarations in order to examine the contemporary [...]
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Hospitality in/as Art
Apostolos Lampropoulos I am writing these lines in Athens, Greece, after the end of the strict lockdown in May 2020. [...]
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Common Ground: Exploring Hospitality through Art
Redi Koobak and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert Imagine a village in the middle of a forest. Sparsely populated, surrounded by serene nature, it [...]
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“Women are not Allowed to Play Omweso”: Contesting Gendered Spaces through Akakyala and Nakulabye
Kirumira Rose Namubiru and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert Dr. Kirumira Rose Namubiru, a widely recognised and exhibited artist and sculptor was born and [...]
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Border Hospitality
Mahmoud Keshavarz In the summer of 2014, while I was in Athens to interview passport forgers as part of my PhD [...]
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Stolen Roads: Reclaiming Paths of Decolonisation through Community Theatre Practices
Dheeman Bhattacharyya Budhan: Finally...finally...tell me, what was my crime? Why was I killed? I was only eating a paan (beetle [...]
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My Castle is your Castle: What Does it Mean to Host Artists?
Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka and Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek During their residency at The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in 2011, Bianca Elzenbaumer and Fabio Franz of [...]
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