By Per Kåks How are gender roles, poverty and HIV/AIDS connected, and how does a change in one of these lead to a change in the others? The threat that HIV has brought to the affected countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa, has led to massive social shifts on several levels.…
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By Karen Ramirez On December 22nd 2017, the Thomas Fire became California’s largest wildfire in modern history. It was contained on January 12th 2018 after burning 1,141 km2 of mountainous terrain and 1,600 structures in the Southern Californian counties of Ventura and Santa Barbara. This fire was frightening not just…
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By Thomas Schmitt For a long time, virtual reality (VR) has been the new frontier of the video game industry. The field’s ultimate goal is to drive gamer experience to a point at which the line between perception and reality fades, along with the distinction between simulated character and self.…
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By Theo Herold From the fall of the Twin Towers until 2012 over 10 000 Americans died in the War on Terror. The war has been labelled a ‘disaster’ and a complete failure by many, and the death toll is often referred to when criticizing President Bush’s decision to invade…
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Av Oscar Angestav Att skapa gemenskap i Europa har varit ett fredsprojekt sedan andra världskrigets slut. Allt fler länder har kommit att omfattas, men idag tycks samarbetet knaka i fogarna; rädslan för vad EU-samarbetet för med sig har börjat spridas över nationsgränserna. Utifrån ett antal datum som varit avgörande för…
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By Baptiste Marecaile September 24th, 2017: Germany is dismayed by the results of the federal election: for the first time since the end of WW2, a far-right populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AFD) is going to enter the Bundestag, the German parliament, with 94 seats. It becomes the third largest…
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By Niclas Hvalgren 2017 was quite a year, was it not? There was Trump, the war in Syria. Mugabe was forced to step down in Zimbabwe, and Macron stepped up in France. We had too many referendumsto count. Brexit. Trump again. I will spare you the headache and not mention any…
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By Sakke Teerikoski The politics of fear. Eighteen months ago this was Donald Trump’s ace in the sleeve. It was the strategy behind a successful campaign that had just made him the Republican party’s candidate for the US presidency – and that would soon make him president. That was 2016.…
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Av Karine Pfenniger Allt började med ett brev. Budskapet som en biograf i S:t Petersburg fick per post i slutet av förra sommaren var tydligt, nästan profetiskt. På pappret, under två svärd sammanlänkade med ett kors, stod det: ”Kommer filmen Matilda ut imorgon, skall biografer brinna och människor lida. De…
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By Simon Dürr Does fear of terrorism warrant limitless surveillance? As you walk around a mid-sized city in the Western world you will pass around 30 to 70 surveillance cameras. In cities such as London, in the world’s most surveilled nation – the United Kingdom – that number can reach…
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