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Do the press see their readerships more as citizens or as consumers? The philosopher Jurgen Habermas has famously argued that modern capitalist society has seen the decline of the public sphere and ...
Sukhanovskaya Prison, also known as Sukhanovka or Special Facility No.110 existed between 1938 and 1952. In 1938, on the orders of the NKVD [forerunner of the KGB and FSB] a secret detention centre ...
Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and ...
How and why has the prison returned to the institutional forefront of the advanced societies, when four decades ago analysts of the penal scene were convinced it was on the decline, if not on the path ...
The current moment – marked by rising homophobia and the rollback of progressive rights across Africa and beyond – sits ...
The dominant process underlying the transformation of life in all societies, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, is the conversion of things and activities into commodities, or commodification.
Godwin's law, the adage that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one", reflects the fact that one of the surest ways to ...
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is an African feminist writer and activist, and author of Seeking Sexual Freedom. She is also an award ...
Perhaps due to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide last week, the Nairobi police’s substantial crackdown on Muslims and illegal immigrants failed to hit international ...
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery (BTS) seeks to help those trying to understand forced labour, trafficking and slavery by combining the rigour of academic scholarship with the clarity of journalism. Our ...
The Lopota incident of August 2012 was the most dramatic clash in Georgia since that country’s short, bloody war with Russia in 2008. The skirmish between a group of irregular militants of mostly ...
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