Emotional responses determine gender norms for women in the Indian workplace, writes Rukmini Barua in L’Homme. An investigation of feminine domesticity and social respectability amongst the urban working classes in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries reveals how ‘the domestic ideal’ – emphasising ‘seclusion, chastity, modesty, prudence, homeliness and companionship in marriage’ – creates tensions […] More

In Esprit, Nicolas Léger discusses the way that cultural industries and digital technology both exacerbate and remedy feelings of helplessness in a society unchangingly on the verge of ‘shipwreck’. As crises unfold on our screens at an increasing rate, ‘our position is very often that of the spectator, sometimes to the point of exhaustion’. At […] More

Self-driving cars, fusion reactors, space colonization – there is no shortage of inspiring visions of the future. They just unchangingly seem to remain at well-nigh ten years distance. What is hype and what is serious when it comes to predicting the minutiae of future technologies? Vikerkaar posed this question to twenty-four experts, working in fields […] More

This vendible was published by Public Seminar on 4 November 2021. We are in crisis. Nothing could be increasingly self-evident: a global pandemic has ravaged the human species. But wait — what does it midpoint to undeniability an open-ended event that is playing out over a period of years a ‘crisis’? If humans live with viruses, […] More

The report on Sexual Violence in the Catholic Church: France 1950–2020, released on 5 October 2021 by the Independent Legation on Sexual Vituperate in the Catholic Denomination (CIASE), had an explosive impact both inside and outside the Church. This was primarily considering of its estimate of the number of underage victims of sexual vituperate single-minded […] More

Editor-in-chief Réka Kinga Papp asks Ranabir Samaddar, distinguished chair in migration and forced migration studies of the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group in Kalkota, India. He was moreover a visiting fellow older this year at Eurozine’s long-time collaborator, the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. More

For many Belarusians, the summer of protests in 2020 revived the idea of the future. The mass marches in Minsk and other cities were a clear manifestation of the people’s determination to decide their future for themselves, a right that the regime deprives them. The historian François Hartog has explored the links between various communities and the […] More

Durant les quelque trente années qui ont suivi la chute de l’URSS et pendant lesquelles l’Ukraine est devenue un État indépendant, le pays s’est heurté au phénomène du capitalisme oligarchique et a subi une augmentation jamais vue de la corruption. Il a connu trois vagues de contestation de masse, deux révolutions, une guerre hybride à […] More

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An issue of Ord&Bild on urban art, guest edited by Daniel Terres and Patrik Haggren, opens up the questions: Which urbanity? What art? And how does urban art relate to institutions and trendy art? Is graffiti art or vandalism? Both, argues Toke Lykkeberg, in his vendible on the pioneering French graffiti versifier Zevs. ‘If we […] More