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January-February 2019, Issue 4
7 Thoughts on Today’s Paranoid Society, after Kafka
Nitzan Lebovic
When thinkers and authors of Franz Kakfa’s time referred to his political-prophetic quality, they usually pointed out to the paranoid quality he gave to society, and its ensuing violence. They did so in two opposite ways.
Read moreOn Bolsonaro’s Politics of Hate in Brazil
Kathryn Lum
During the last decade, under a succession of centre-left governments at the national level, Brazil has made great strides, both in lifting millions out of poverty through the Bolsa Familia social programme, and in tackling institutionalised and social racism…
Read moreAnti-Roma Racism in the Age of Nationalism
Huub van Baar
Some news does not reach the world easily, if at all, while other news does, seemingly without effort. News regarding racist attacks on Roma usually belongs to the former category, while news highlighting their alleged asocial or criminal…
Read moreTHE EXPERT: Dissecting the Alt Right Online: is the ‘Alt Left’ an Invention?
Richard Rogers
The ‘Alt Left’ could be described as the loose movement of anti-fascists (Antifa) and others opposed to the rising ‘Alt Right’, especially in the US but also in Europe. Or does it?
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CHECK YOURSELF: The White Privilege Test
MUSEUM DETOX
Recommended last October by The Royal Historical Society, “this test has been developed as a tool to discuss and debate towards positive change in the cultural industry – however awkward the conversation may feel.” Sandra Shakespeare, at MUSEUM DETOX.
Read moreHistory of Racist Fences in the US, Real or Imagined
Nick Sciullo
The United States has long been obsessed with borders, from the Louisiana Purchase to its short-lived imperial era conquests of Cuba, the Philippines, and Hawaii, to Donald Trump’s desire to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.
Read morefrom “BAD IDEA”: Brexit poems before Brexit
Robert Sheppard
Brexit overdubs of Michael Drayton’s 1611 sonnet sequence “Idea”, are unpublished poems by acclaimed British writer & academic Robert Sheppard. Illustrations by Patricia Farrell, for Monitor Global Intelligence on Racism.
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