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Leeching off personal stories | Eurozine
In the early morning of 25 April 1959, about ten masked men wearing white gloves entered the Pearl River County Jail in Poplarville, Mississippi. One of the guards let them in and led them to the cell where 23-year-old Black truck driver Mack Charles Parker, accused of raping a white woman, was being held.¹ According…
Serbia’s awakening | Eurozine
Six months after the collapse of a concrete awning at the railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia is in the throes of a general rebellion against the regime of President Aleksandar Vučić. The November tragedy, in which sixteen people lost their lives and two others were maimed, was the final straw and ignited a full-scale…
No pain, no gain | Eurozine
Two years ago, my body gave out. ‘Burnout’, said the doctor, as he carefully wrote out a note ordering me to stop all professional activities. His look indicated that I would be needing his signature more often. What followed was an arduous process of recovery in which I restlessly searched for a sense of purpose.…
Get it off your chest
At times coy, at others demonstrative, the male body seemingly has its autonomy covered. Identifying as male comes with certain public assurances: while your genitalia is sacred, you are free to bare all else without reproach. But such liberties don’t necessarily lead to body confidence. Phallocentrism, initially coined to challenge psychoanalysis’s fixation on the phallus…
Popular culture in flux | Eurozine
Opening a dossier in Varlık on ‘Popular culture in flux’, Mutlu Binark’ offers an overview of the hegemony of North American cultural products in the 1970s. According to Binark, an ‘unjust communication network’ was imposed on the Global South for decades. In the 21st century, by contrast, Bollywood, Korean television dramas, K-pop, and Nollywood have…
Left speechless | Eurozine
This article was first published by Index on Censorship on 10 April 2025. It appeared in Volume 54, Issue 1 of Index on Censorship’s print magazine, titled: The forgotten patients: Lost voices in the global healthcare system. Read more about the issue here. Most children say their first word between the ages of 12 and 18 months. But…
Marketing resentment | Eurozine
The emotional charge of politics has increased in the past decades. Expert governance and fact-based leadership were the leading claims in the 2000s, often ignoring that expertise wasn’t a neutral position either. As the pendulum swings back, strongly charged political speech is king today, and the conventional politicians who cannot muster this are openly mocked. …
Elusive elites | Eurozine
Sometimes a phrase gets stuck in your head. Year after year, it pops up, often triggered by specific situations or places. For me, it is impossible to walk pass a cemetery without silently whispering, ‘history is a graveyard of aristocrats’. Pretentious as it may be, I always say it in Italian: la storia è un…
Democracies depend on reading | Eurozine
Just where on earth are flying cars, wondered American anthropologist David Graeber 12 years ago. Like all of us who grew up in the 1960s watching The Flintstones, he believed that flying cars would become part of our adult life by the year 2000. But instead, he lamented, 60 years later, we have technologies that…
From Helsinki to full-scale invasion
Since 24 February 2022, it will have become clear to everyone that Russia has not only challenged but also violated in every respect the European security order embodied by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and its two founding documents, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act and the 1990 Charter of Paris –…
