Abstract The article analyses the political meaning of silence by reflecting on communicative, autonomous and aesthetic function in context prevailing speech systems. In article, is interpreted as an active communication form, activist protest tactic practice. argues that can have a politically subversive toward aesthetically organised systems.Conventionally, devalued Western societies primaril...

The publication of a controversial article in Third World Quarterly and the consequent unveiling critical questioning journal practices continue to engender strong negative feelings for many scholars. At juncture within process this collection, we faced an ethical dilemma regarding how maintain political commitments while manoeuvring sometimes hostile academic environment. Here examine its reso...

Gay men have been severely affected by the AIDS crisis, and gay subjectivity, sexual ethics, politics continue to be deeply influenced HIV this day. PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a new, drug-based prevention technique, that allows disentangling sex from its widespread, 40 yearlong association with illness death. This article explores PrEP’s fundamental impact on politics. It traces genealo...

In this article, we investigate the socio-technical ecology of Twitter, including technological affordances platform and user-generated discursive strategies used to create circulate anti-Muslim disinformation online. During first wave Covid-19, right-wing followers claimed that Muslims were spreading virus perform Jihad. We analyzed a sample 7000 tweets using Critical Discourse Analysis examin...

This paper traces the legacies of austerity through a focus on grassroots temporary urban interventions in public spaces. Drawing self-organised neighbourhood park Thessaloniki, Greece, it explores and analyses politicising dynamics these experiments that emerged as direct response to state retrenchment but became long-term legacy with material social consequences. The aim is contribute contemp...

Abstract Based on an original survey 1500 young people aged from 18 to 29 years old, this article aims better understand the influence of economic vulnerability family and peers’ solidarity. By considering two types support (practical financial supports), our results show that for economically vulnerable provided by peers is more durable intimately related basic needs fulfilment.

A vagabond, as is well known, moves from place to place without a fixed home. However, vagabondage insinuates a little dissolution—an unsettled, irresponsible, and disreputable life, which indeed can be said of the globalization of capitalist production. This paper reframes the discussion on globalization through a materialist focus on social reproduction. By looking at the material social prac...

This article examines the lack of solidarity between Black Lives Matter protests in U.S. and anti-authoritarian uprising Belarus 2020. Specifically, I explore how distant geographies feminist communities can relate to each other thus challenge rise right-wing conservatism, white supremacy, neoliberal authoritarianism. relies on auto-ethnography exploration public media, political essays, schola...

The postapocalypse as a mobilising discourse for climate action operates largely out of anger over experienced and anticipated injustices well paradoxical hope that fuses loss grief with freed-up solidarities in support liveable futures. However, negotiating this emotional tension can be both draining isolating. Here, we examine how white settler populations Western Australia balance places the...