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Jacobites, Logwood and Enslavement
Read more: Jacobites, Logwood and EnslavementRethinking Scots' activities in the Early Modern Caribbean
Afghanistan’s ambiguous anniversary
On the third anniversary of the seizure of Kabul, Robert D. Crews asks how we make sense of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
Q&A with the author of Categories: A Study of a Concept in Western Philosophy and Political Thought
Luke O'Sullivan, author of Categories, discusses how his book came to be, and what's next for him.
Young Adults & War
How can literature for young adults and children help to foster lasting positive social change?
Relationality in Times of War
How do British and German cultural works establish relationality between Israel and Palestine?
Should we compare the violence of rape, war, racism, and ecocide?
…pacifist feminists have long argued we must by Selina Gallo-Cruz Content warning: mentions of rape and sexual harassment Rape, war, racism, ecocide: a litany of violence. Are they comparable—and, if so, should they be compared? Across generations, feminist pacifists have…
Reconceiving ‘Wellbeing’ in AI Governance: Prosperity without Autonomy?
by Theodore Scaltsas We are all accustomed to thinking of wellbeing in Aristotelian terms, assuming the agent’s choice (proairesis) for the preferences and actions that constitute their wellbeing. The agent chooses what is good for them and performs the relevant…
Decolonising human rights: a Q&A with Benjamin P. Davis
I want to talk about how all of us can decolonise human rights in our everyday lives, in constructive and imaginative ways
Journalism under hybrid politics
by Kjetil Selvik, Jacob Høigilt Only a few years ago, Tunisia was the freest country in the Arab world, with a flourishing media scene. Journalists were scrambling to reinvent their role in the public sphere that emerged after the Jasmine…
‘Believers in Biology’: a coordinated effort to disrupt the 2022 census
by Sarah Pederson On the night of 2 April 1911, around 100 suffragettes spent the night sheltering in the Café Vegetaria in Nicholson Street, Edinburgh. Completion of the national census returns for 1911 had been politicised by leaders of the…