Security for whom, security by whom?
Narratives of energy security in Europe
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Welcome to Wolmar
‘Kapav marse me pa gagn drwa assize laba’ - everyday racism and the politics of privilege and exclusion in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius
Shaheen Beeharry
African Institutions of Higher Learning Need to Foster the Craft of Scholarly Writing
Postgraduate and early-career trainers and mentors in most African universities invest very little in the craft of writing beyond research and methodology courses.
Job Mwaura in Africa, Education, Academia and Higher Institutions
Nov 2, 2021 · 6 mins
The (LSE) Decoloniality Reading Circle: A Manifesto in 14 Suggestions
A decolonial Manifesto is our roadmap. It carries what we have learnt throughout this past year: conversations and dialogues which are timeless. They are home to our imagined hopes. By choosing the decolonial option, these learnings have become or were already part of our realities—by default.
Amina Alaoui Soulimani, Gen England and Walid Hedidar in Decoloniality, Education, Knowledge Production and Postcolonialism
Jul 20, 2021 · 15 mins
Dancing Against Patriarchy: Esraa Warda on Chikhates, Hchouma and “North Africa”— Part I
A conversation with Esraa Warda, a performance and teaching artist that preserves and transmits traditional Moroccan and Algerian dance forms through movement workshops and interactive performances. On her upbringing, the asymmetrical boundaries of modesty, the male gaze and the hchouma culture.
Amina Alaoui Soulimani in Africa, Decoloniality, Dance, Interview and Feminism
May 10, 2021 · 18 mins
Eric Murinzi: The photographer who praises the people keeping Rwanda exemplary clean
A candid conversation about a photography of emotions, spotlighting the incredible women who ensure to keep Rwanda clean —a priority 26 years after the genocide.
Maria Iotova in Interview, Africa, Rwanda, Creative Freedom and Photo-Essay
Jan 15, 2021 · 4 mins
Rethinking pragmatic solutions for sustainable futures
In an exclusive interview with the Metric, Marianne and Tim, two co-founders of the German Do-Tank Circularity, give us insights into the economy of tomorrow
Gloria Gerhardt in Europe, Germany, Circular Economy, Sustainability and Post-Pandemic Futurisms
Nov 22, 2020 · 6 mins
From Revolutionary Iran to a Journey of Art and Exile: A Conversation with Kazem Shahryari
The Iranian Revolution was one of the key events of the twentieth century (1978-1979). Kazem Shahryari didn’t get involved. He was already involved. They made a revolution before the revolution. In this interview, Shahryari speaks of his activism, exile, and French xenophobia.
Samia Meziane in Interview, Culture, Exile, Iran and Revolutionnaries
Oct 14, 2020 · 23 mins
Dylan Valley: A contemporary reenvisioner and decoloniser of cinema
Documentary filmmaker, Dylan Valley, is a multi-talented director from Cape Town, South Africa. From a very early stage, he watched films about anti-apartheid struggle on forced removals in Cape Town, prosecuted and assassinated activists. He wanted to tell stories that needed to be told.
Maria Iotova in Interview, Cinema, Decolonization, Africa and South Africa
Oct 6, 2020 · 9 mins
Re-Imagining the Desert: Muhcine Ennou on Creative Freedom, Solitude, and the Birthing of Art
Muhcine Ennou is a visual artist from Morocco. I spoke with him out of curiosity about his most recent CGI Artwork which stands for Computer-Generated Imagery. The latter artwork engages the sun, hope & alternative worlds.
Amina Alaoui Soulimani in Interview, Creative Freedom, Photo-Essay, Africa and Morocco
Oct 3, 2020 · 10 mins
“You get this superficial veneer of admiration” Researching the experiences of women in social care work.
The high incidence of burnout and consequent high staff turnover represent a cost to the sector. For society at large, the current perfunctory appreciation must be converted to a deeper-rooted understanding and respect.
Kate Woodhouse in Care work, Europe, UK, Burnout and Research
Sep 28, 2020 · 13 mins
Cooking as Praxis
It is true that for many (especially women), cooking is a slog; a chore; a relentless rhythm of unrecognised servitude. Often an act of love but also an undeniable reminder of the domesticated femininity women are benchmarked against.
Gen England in Opinion, Culture, Feminism and Cooking
Sep 23, 2020 · 9 mins
Anti-Blackness is hiding in plain sight
In thinking about anti-Blackness in the United States, I’ve had to contend with this phenomenon being alive and well in Mauritian society. A quick glance inwards and around can reveal a lot of uncomfortable, often racist history.
Nastassia Jagatsingh in Essay, Black Lives Matter, Brown Fragility, Africa and Mauritius
Aug 21, 2020 · 12 mins
The Word for World is Forest* | A Photo-Essay
The thing that the virus whispered into our ear, with its sharp voice, was simple and solid, "We are together in this...". That tiny thing, which was invisible to the eye at first, is now big enough to make our eyes bleed. The earth is a human colony…
Uygar Bulut in Photo-Essay, Culture, Covid-19 and Nature
Jul 20, 2020 · 6 mins
Discovering my EU Citizenship too Late
I voted Remain. I’d consider myself an ardent ‘Remainer’ evident by the fact I proudly sport a ‘Bollocks to Brexit’ sticker on my laptop and I cried on a stranger’s shoulder the day the results were announced, but I never really understood what it was that we were losing until now.
Maddy Haughton-Boakes in Europe, Brexit, Opinion, UK and Citizenship
Jul 16, 2020 · 6 mins
Tatters of History
A visit to the once Palestinian City of Haifa
Fares Amer in Culture, Photo-Essay, Middle East, Haifa, Palestine and Ruins
Jul 14, 2020 · 4 mins
Post-pandemic Africa: Leadership for troubled times
As we head into a time of unavoidable hardship, but also a time of global reflection, the African continent which is no stranger to the struggles of the human condition, may yet have more to teach the world about surviving, leading and growing amid troubled times
Reon van der Merwe and Sumona Bose in Leadership, Africa and Covid-19
Jul 6, 2020 · 10 mins
