Identity Hunters
“If a man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.” Immanuel Kant, quoted in the movie Cuck (2019) The evolution of the ‘cuck’ trope The comedies of Shakespeare and Chauser frequently featured the character trope of the ‘cuckold’ – a man whose wife is unfaithful, playing into popular Elizabethan […]
Jackie Chan once conquered audiences with his humour, playfulness, and flexible martial arts moves. He fell and bruised his face in Police Stories and subdued gangsters with nunchakus in Rumble in the Bronx, showing the witty, smooth, and slightly flexible Chinese male charm. This image fits China’s soft-power diplomacy strategy at the time, which emphasised […]
By Sophiya Duale Bound by tradition, exploited under French rule and facing American bombardment, Vietnamese women rapidly transformed from obedient daughters into fierce revolutionaries. Their journey reflects a fight to free their homeland from foreign dominance and themselves from patriarchy’s ancient grip. A Woman’s Place in Traditional VietnamRooted in Confucian tradition, Vietnamese women lived under […]
By Madeleine Pearson-Gee, Theodore Browning The island nation of Malta has a greater concentration of churches than any other non-Vatican country in Europe. Church-going participants in Malta’s booming tourism economy, however, are often taken aback when the Maltese mass first mentions God – the priest’s words are l-imħabba ta ‘Alla. ‘Alla’ is a word of […]
Written by Gabriel Blondeau The Battle of Thermopylae has been subject to a number of retellings, reinterpretations, revisions and most importantly, lies. We must distinguish the historical facts from the historicised narrative fiction presented as the former, often used as a basis for legitimacy. The Battle of the Thermopylae pass was fought in 480 BC […]
by Sarah Rost Yesterday, on the 10th of March, a private viewing of the exhibition took place at The Exchange. Here a few words on the show as a whole, the process of putting it together, and the meanings it entails… During multiple workshops, students were guided in their creating and curating of art around […]
The Department of War Studies is thrilled to present #nationalism[aesthetics]: (Be)Longing, Rediscovering, Rebuilding Identities in view at The Exchange (Bush House North East Wing, Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG) from Saturday, 5th of March. #nationalism[aesthetics] is an exhibition curated by and featuring the works by third-year BA students from the Department of War Studies. Spearheaded by […]
Written by: Matias Salo/ Edited by: Jake Dickson A Delicate Balance Populist and nationalist parties must always consider and balance two key considerations when engaging in public discourse. The first is defining their version of nationalism and how exclusionary or narrow this definition should be. The other is how far it is acceptable to go […]
Written by: Saskia Alais/ Edited by: Jake Dickson When Nelson Mandela assumed the South African Presidency in May 1994, he sounded the final death knell of apartheid, a system of legalised racial segregation that, for more than five decades, had stripped non-Whites of their socio-economic rights and consigned indigenous Blacks to the bottom of the […]
Identity Hunters 