Current Affairs And Politics
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Consuming Cultures
A wide-ranging and sensitive exploration of local versus global, underlining the economic roots of cultural identity.
Jeremy Seabrook
April 5, 2007 -
Trigger Issues: Kalashnikov AK-47
An everyday item (in many countries) with iconic status and strange cultural symbolism.
Gideon Burrows
February 23, 2007 -
Trigger Issues: Mosquito
The constant battle against the tiny foe and its deadly disease, and its cultural impact through history
Richard Swift
February 23, 2007 -
Trigger Issues: Diamonds
The ultimate ‘rocks’: desired, possessed, traded, stolen, smuggled and - literally for many - to die for.
Nikki van der Gaag
February 23, 2007 -
Don’t Shoot the Clowns
The Iraqi people’s story of dealing with invasion and occupation, told through an activist turned clown.
Jo Wilding
October 7, 2006
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The Girl Store
2012-05-0421 Mari Marcel ThekaekaraMari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
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‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
2012-04-0116 Jamie Kelsey-Fry‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
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Death, justice and the big questions
2012-05-0912 Tony MckennaWith capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
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Some thoughts on becoming a woman in India
2012-05-1110 Mari Marcel ThekaekaraIn some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
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F**k off Boris!
2012-03-2710 Alan HughesAlan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.
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