Lessons from Mahalla, Paris: what future for Egypt’s fractured revolution?
When the Arab Spring erupted in 2011, the post-modern era of skepticism and pessimism in relation to positive, progressive political change was broken, albeit momentarily. The sight of thousands of [...]
The Sudan Uprisings – clues for an anti-capitalist agenda
A spectre is haunting the world- the spectre of Austerity. Deficit-cutting measures now haunt populations across the world and it is the poorest and most vulnerable that are being hit [...]
Reimagining Naïvety – Metropolis and 21st century politics
Utopias and dystopias of the past tell us something about the present: they reveal hopes and fears surrounding decisions that led to the way things are now. Fritz Lang’s Metropolis [...]
Interconnected chaos in Islamic Africa – the Tuareg rebellion
Much has been written about the domestic implications of the Arab Spring, but the external relevance of the uprising across North Africa and the Arab world has not yet been [...]
A Senegalese Spring or merely “we’re fed up”?
Senegal has long been understood as the bastion of democracy in western-most Africa. The region has seen prolonged conflict in Sierra Leone and Liberia, post-election violence and disorder in Cote [...]
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