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Category: Representation

Widening the lens: English teaching volunteering

by Ruthie Walters Overseas volunteering has received a lot of attention in academia, in the media and on social media. Yet, the focus … More

We tend to forget – people on the other side of the world

by Hannah Schwemin One year. A couple of months more. It has been one year and a couple of months … More

Sex Sells: Female Athletes’ Use of Instagram

by Lucy Shepherd We have all seen it, female athletes being used as sex objects to sell products, pictured on … More

White Saviours – Do They Really Matter?

by Anne-Meike Fechter  Not least since the novelist Teju Cole launched a trenchant critique of what he called the ‘white … More

Becoming Human: Malala Yousafzai and the Politics of Representation

by Carlo Ceglia Malala. It is enough to say her first name. How did this 21-year-old Pakistani girl – the … More

“Red-carpet catholicism”: gendering the heavenly body

by Mac Spencer Three decades after the fallout from Like A Prayer, the relationship between pop culture and Catholicism seems … More

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

…May ’68, Nuit Debout and Romanticizing Struggles by Jade Ascencio In 2016, the Nuit Debout movement in Paris installed its … More

From the Field: Mfuwe, Zambia

by Esther Mulders For the past two years, I’ve been volunteering in Zambia with Studio Zambia, a Dutch non-profit organisation … More

Chivalry Isn’t Dead…But it Should Be?

By Jonny Craig Let’s begin with a scenario: It’s the end of his lunch hour, and Gary from IT is … More

Remembering Genocide in the Cambodian Diaspora

 by Elisa Sandri  ‘As the body moves where then does memory live?’ – Katharya Um For many Cambodians, the wounds … More

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