Identity Hunters
In this podcast, Philipp Rowe and Ansh Mehta talk about ‘Feindbild’, or the image of the enemy. They uncover how this is constructed through irredentism and ethnic nationalism in the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. In effect, they say it is the nationalistic sentiment, and not a geopolitical greed for territory, that drives this very contentious conflict. Check […]
Written by: Thomas Bouzereau One of the most well-preserved remains of the Roman forum in the antique city of Nîmes in Southern France is the Maison Carrée. A temple erected in 4-7AD, it stands today pretty much as it used to be then, almost untouched by two millennia of history. The frontispiece used to read […]
Written by: Alyah Albader When you think of Japan, one of the first things you’d think about is the samurai – either that or a string of popular anime and manga. Beyond these two polarized cultural phenomena, the modern trends of anime/ manga and the mythological entity of the samurai, there is a metaphysical connection […]
Want to know more about ETA and its impact on Spanish politics today? Listen to the podcast by Roger Creus Vila and Chloe Delaitre! Featured image by UKBERRI.NET Uribe Kosta eta Erandioko agerkari digital (Flickr/CC BY 2.0)
“What separates the Norwegians from the apes? – The Norway-Sweden border” Written by: Mari Maldal(disclaimer: the author of this piece is Norwegian) National humor is difficult to investigate. The concept of humor is subject to many variables, and there are few investigations into humor on a national level, as most of the evidence is heavily […]
Interested in the role of blackness in creating a raceless identity in Cuba? Listen to the podcast by Marta Navarro and Charlotte Bascaule! This podcast is meant for non-commercial educational purposes only. The use in the intro and outro of non-edited 15-seconds extracts of two copyright-protected songs credited below, aiming strictly at illustrating our educational […]
Written by: Thomas Bouzereau and Pauline Darrieus ‘The very concept of objective truth is fading in the world… This prospect frightens me much more than bombs’, George Orwell says in Fascism and Democracy. In his ‘Notes on Nationalism’, published in 1945, Orwell develops the above thesis by studying the mechanisms of nationalism, which he defines, […]
Written by: Erell Mourouga One of the latest and furthest territories to integrate metropolitan France and most fractured politically, New-Caledonia is at the dawn of a third and final independence referendum. Its outcome in December 2021 will not only impact the geo-politics of the South Pacific region – an area of great interest in light […]
Written by: Kotono Sagane “Singapore you are not my country. Singapore you are not a country at all. You are surprising Singapore, statistics-starved Singapore, soulful Singapore of tourist brochures in Japanese and hourglass kebayas. […] Your words are like walls on which truth is graffiti. This has become an island of walls. Asylum walls, factory […]
Identity Hunters 