Review – The Another Europe Podcast
This ongoing podcast from the Another Europe Is Possible campaign organisation debates controversial topics such as Brexit and freedom of movement in an inclusive style.
Interview – Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about cosmopolitanism, identity, moral progress, Afrocentrism, what Black History Month means to him and gives some advice for young scholars.
Interview – Elisabete Azevedo-Harman
Elisabete Azevedo-Harman sheds light on the growth of communication, citizenship and technology in Africa and discusses Dhlakama’s legacy, democracy and President Nyusi.
Interview – PJ Brendese
PJ Brendese discusses his work exploring public memory, forgetting, relationships to memory and their link to democratic possibilities, and recent debates over monuments.
Human Rights and Democracy: An Incompatible or Complementary Relationship?
This essay traverses tensions between human rights and democracy stemming from their incompatible basic values, modes of application and types of politics they foster.
Pacifism, Just War and Civil Liberties in a Multicultural Age
I will not fight for my rights, my freedoms or for my place in the political process. All of these are granted either by birth as a human being, or by citizenship.
Hindutva and Citizenship in India: Helping Refugees or Building Vote Banks?
The amendment of the citizenship act in India is expected to have fierce resistance, accusing the BJP of trying to push a Hindu-Nationalist agenda and build vote banks.
Interview – Nando Sigona
Dr. Sigona discusses the ongoing refugee crisis in the Euro-Mediterranean region, and the need for the EU to find a sustainable and humane response at its borders.
Review – Imperial Subjects: Citizenship in an Age of Crisis and Empire
Mooers’ book offers a refreshing revisited critique of capital and of the varied contradictions of neoliberalism and its impact on ideas of national/global citizenship.
What’s So Bad about Citizenship Testing?
Citizenship tests construct an ideal remote to the majority of citizens and noncitizens. They reinforce the constructions of difference which deepen divisions in society.
