Yasmin Gunaratnam and Fataneh Farahani As we write in July 2020, our everyday lives have been shaken by the mimetic entwining [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Poetry Against ‘Oh, Canada!’ Racism
Tania Maki Chahal The summer of 2017 was particularly hostile to Indigenous people in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, a settler city [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: “Blood In, Blood Out” – Can Art Change Gangsterism?
Daniel Mpilo Richards If someone had told me when I was 11 years old, that there existed another form of [...]
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Policy and Politics: Citizens trust in their capacity to self-govern, policymakers are more sceptical
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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