Identity Hunters
Written by: Kotono Sagane Above is an image of Bahuchara Mata, a Hindu goddess of fertility. However, some might recognise her as the mother of hijras – a gender identity in South Asia whose birth sex is male but identify as neither male nor female. While hijras are often mistakenly described under the umbrella of […]
Written by: Marta Navarro Politics is a topic that has been growing in importance in the Spanish socio-political sphere. Everyone seems to be an expert and to have an opinion about it, however, not everyone seems to have the interest to understand the proposals offered by the different parties. It is therefore not surprising that […]
Written by: Polina Evtushenkova Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova – the names of these Russian cosmonauts probably ring a bell for everyone because they are known to be the first man and woman to go to space – in 1961 and 1963 respectively. Since Gagarin went to space, Soviet national space propaganda occupied an important place […]
Written by: Matti Spara In the so-called “practice turn” in IR, a diverse body of theoretical literature that emphasises the everyday practices of international relations, Merje Kuus and others have asked interesting questions about the “where?” of international politics and to what extent diplomatic sites matter in foreign policy. Sauna is one such setting. It […]
Written by: Eliott Sistac Forming a national identity is a process indispensable to the concept of a nation. Inseparable from the theory of nationalism, the formation of national identity is used by governments to gain legitimacy by claiming the national and political units of the state should be congruent. As a member of the first […]
Written by: Anna Perkins “He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future” George Orwell To outside observers, President Vladimir Putin’s presentation of Russia’s national history may seem oddly ambivalent. Both celebrating and minimising events of the Soviet past, the 2018 opening of the ‘Russia- my history’ exhibition […]
Written by: Pauline Darrieus In summer 1910, Theodore Roosevelt delivers a speech in Kansas about what he calls ‘New Nationalism’, as part of his campaign for the 1912 presidential elections. There, he advocates for institutional reforms to preserve democracy and ensure the accurate representation of all the American people. This speech is set in the […]
Written by: Aaron Sidhu “I am truly sorry. We tried our best, but we have let everyone down.” These are not the words you would expect to hear from an Olympic silver medallist. But when Chinese badminton star Li Jinui returned to Beijing after a heated finals defeat, this is what he posted on social […]
In this podcast, Kenza Essalama and India Dunkley discuss academic identity, building on ideas of identity displacement and imposter syndrome and barriers surrounding higher education as a result of deep-rooted social and cultural expectations and circumstances. Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here
Identity Hunters 