The European Union is an unprecedented effort to reshape political relations within as well as across national boundaries and formulates a certain ideal for a modern, democratic member state. Moreover, as the contributions in this volume attest, to an unparalleled degree, the EU’s endorsement of gender equality as a fundamental value is part of this ideal and the EU demands, at least discursive...

After a short critical reflection on what is understood under anticolonial aesthetics and how it relates to the shift from political decolonization more epistemologically aesthetically oriented decoloniality, essay focuses seldom considered decolonial trajectories originating in ex- present colonies of Russian/Soviet empire post/neo-imperial Russia. It analysed these intersect with diverge pred...

The challenge of developing humane migration and refugee politics in Western states is far from resolved. This ongoing failure typically attributed to the increased influence right-wing populism neo-fascism politics. In this article I discuss a more radical explanation: Christoph Menke argues that political liberalism its framing as an issue subjective human rights deeper root problem. While me...

This paper explores the changing fortunes of the public realm during the last two decades. It poses the problem of how we think about globalisation and neo-liberalism as forces driving these changes. It then examines how different aspects of the public realm – understood as public interest, as public services and as a collective identity – have been subjected to processes of dissolution. Differ...