Richard Wilk In the last two years events called “trash fish dinners” have been held all over the United States, mostly [...]
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Category "Viewpoint"
Viewpoints on topics in the news.
Viewpoint: The invention of nature
Brigitte Nerlich Every summer I try to read an enjoyable history of science book. This year it is Andrea Wulf’s 2015 [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Brexit, Class and British ‘National’ Identity
Gurminder K. Bhambra On the day before the referendum on our continued membership of the European Union, I was wondering about [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Authoritarian Populism and Parliamentary Democracy in India
Dilip Menon Contemporary populism is usually located in a crisis of parliamentary democracy in which the question of popular sovereignty begins [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Killers or carers – Who do we think we are when it comes to other animals?
Matthew Cole and Kate Stewart We live in a culture that is deeply confused about other animals. Collectively, we may [...]
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Viewpoint: Vision Reconfiguration – statelessness as forced displacement
Kristy A. Belton Tell me when it was you decided where to be born. Tell me when it was you decided [...]
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Viewpoint: Liberating Motherhood and the Need for a Maternal Feminism
Vanessa Olorenshaw Motherhood has been a minefield for feminism since the inception of the women’s movement. We have fought for reproductive [...]
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Viewpoint: How the exclusion of people is hollowing out our democracy
Stefan Jonsson How many have been displaced? Over sixty million, suggests the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR. If they [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Tackling Climate Change – An Interview with Matthew Bell, CEO of the Committee on Climate Change
Marc Hudson The world will probably not be saved by the outcome of the Paris climate conference. But nevertheless 2016 [...]
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Viewpoint: Venturing Beyond Critique to Practice and Back Again
Victoria Armstrong, Laura Fenton, Katy McEwan, Robert MacDonald, Kirsty Morrin, and Jon Rainford “Thinking means venturing beyond” (Bloch, 1986: 4) [...]
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