Postcolonialism, Feminism and the United Nations
Whereas most coverage of the United Nations paints it as a well-intentioned organisation, critical theories such as postcolonialism and feminism offer a more nuanced take.
The First Continental Conference on Five Hundred Years of Indigenous Resistance
Indigenous organising of this depth and magnitude challenges the norms and practices of state sovereignty.
South Africa’s Cycle of Poverty
Despite more than two decades of efforts to reduce poverty, levels of inequality in South Africa rank amongst the world’s most extreme.
Constructivism and the United Nations
Constructivists see organisations like the United Nations as places where they can study the emergence of new norms and examine the activities of those who are spreading new ideas.
Are Incels Transnational Terrorists?
Involuntarily celibates (incels) proclaim that feminism has ruined the world such that they are unable to get what they’re entitled to – status and power through sexual relationships with women.
Governing Extraction
Mining activities enable the production of many of our most prized and important possessions – such as smartphones. However, they also have environmental impacts.
Sexuality and Borders
The claims of states in the Global North to be promoting LGBTQ+ rights around the world can serve to mask those same states’ violations of the rights of LGBTQ+ people from the Global South.
Images of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Some evidence is emerging that the Belt and Road Initiative more reflects the kind of one-way, or exploitative, trade relationships that it ostensibly set out to differentiate itself from.
Reading Kim Jong-Un’s Face
Understandings of culture can help us better understand attempts to study Kim Jong-Un’s character via physiognomic readings, which are widely practised in South Korea.
The Venezuelan Exodus
The migrant crisis in Venezuela shows how large-scale population movements change destinations depending on global and societal contexts at a given time.
