Identity Politics

On Memes and Men: How Gendered Memes Influenced Trump’s 2016 Election Legitimacy

Sofia Romansky • Aug 26 2020 • Essays

Gendered memes aided Trump’s election by representing him as a hyper-masculine leader, granting him authoritative power and reinforcing his positive political identity.

US Counter-Terrorism and Right-Wing Fundamentalism

James Greenhalgh • Aug 26 2020 • Essays

The US counter-terrorism strategy must include right-wing fundamentalism and not purely focus on Islamic radicalisation.

The Right to Be Here: A Case for the Inclusion of Women in Peace Negotiations

Rosa Rahimi • Aug 12 2020 • Essays

The feminist case for female participation in peace negotiations should be made on grounds that may appear to be deceptively simple.

Accepting the Unacceptable: Christian Churches and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Rita Deliperi • Aug 9 2020 • Essays

The role the Christian Church played has come to represent one of heaviest failures of Christian ethics and the institutions that profess and practice its commandments.

The Impotent Man: How Constructed UK/EU Gender Identities Legitimised Brexit

Alice Chancellor • Aug 6 2020 • Essays

The construction of the UK as an impotent man opposed to the EU as a powerful, yet feminine, Other by the Vote Leave Twitter campaign legitimised the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

Understanding Refugees Through ‘Home’ by Warsan Shire

Sanya Chandra • Aug 2 2020 • Essays

Home forces us to contend with a larger problem – exclusion from the circle of grief based on the lack of shared norms of humanity.

Analysing the ‘Special Relationship’ between the US and UK in a Transatlantic Context

Anna Pitts-Tucker • Aug 2 2020 • Essays

The term ‘Special Relationship’ has defined the alliance between the US and UK. Does it dominate all Transatlantic relations or is it contingent on convenience and context?

Commemorating Srebrenica: The “Inadequate” Truth of the Female Victim Experience

Victoria Hospodaryk • Jul 30 2020 • Essays

A meaningful reconciliation for Bosnian Muslim victims is largely contingent on the construction of a “collective memory” of Srebrenica, built on the female narrative.

The Gendered Politics Behind the International Criminal Court

Erla Ylfa Oskarsdottir • Jul 30 2020 • Essays

The ICC’s review of gender-based crimes is fraught with biases, although the ICC has been more willing to punish offenders of mass rapes against the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Neocolonialism in J.A. Bayona’s ‘The Impossible’

Kate Williams • Jul 27 2020 • Essays

The popular ‘rose tinted’ depiction of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami justifies the Global North’s neocolonial foreign aid strategies.

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