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Rachael Scicluna

About Rachael Scicluna

is a social anthropologist. She sees her profession as an identity which she practices. Issues of social injustice concern her deeply. She seeks every opportunity to create awareness at an individual, social and academic level. As a scholar, Rachael has an obligation to pass on knowledge and sees social media as one of the greatest inventions to reach the wider public. Her research interests are sexuality and gender, alternative family formations, housing, home and the built environment, and policy. Her recent monograph is titled, Home and Sexuality: the 'Other' Side of the Kitchen (2017, Palgrave Macmillan).

Eyes on the Street: the Spectacle of Urban Life

February 13, 2020 · Rachael Scicluna ·

In the 19th century, new social practices, such as the promenading up and down the streets, mainly by men, reflected a new economic reality. Streets proved to be the right passages as architectural commodities for a capitalist economy rooted in visualism. The body became an artefact of display, which demanded the gaze of the onlooker.

Tagged With: capitalism, sexuality, urban planning

Abortion and Relatedness: Breaking the Silence

November 20, 2018 · Rachael Scicluna ·

Why is abortion a taboo? It invokes a sequence of deep-rooted associations which link the concept of embryo to the sense of family and relatedness. Thus, in a kin society like Malta, breaking the connection between the embryo and the woman’s body could be perceived akin to dismantling other ties that hold the family and […]

Tagged With: abortion, gender roles, reproduction rights

Can Bat Conservation Help Protect Our Urban Environment and Heritage? Interview with Elena Portelli, Akustika Project

October 9, 2018 · Rachael Scicluna ·

There is nature within urban areas, it is only somewhat hidden. Elena Portelli from Akustika Project, whose bat conservation initiative involves citizen science, illuminates on how the project is beneficial for protecting the urban environment and heritage.

Tagged With: community, Environment, heritage, wildlife

A Culture of Concealment and Non-Declaration: is the Car Park Attendant an Anomaly?

June 26, 2018 · Rachael Scicluna ·

The parkers are our modern working class entrepreneurs. The parkers, like the developers, landlords and ministers understand the market too well. The parkers managed to carve out their own jobs just at the right time in a neo-patronage system.

Tagged With: employment, neoliberalism, stereotypes

The ‘Other’ Side of the Kitchen Politics Enter the Kitchen

May 22, 2018 · Rachael Scicluna ·

The image of domestic kitchen serves as an electoral asset and reinforces heterosexual gender roles at once.

Tagged With: feminism, gender roles, politics

Wirt iż-Żejtun and Bulebel: a Success Story

March 22, 2018 · Raisa Galea & Rachael Scicluna ·

How can communities resist aggressive development? Wirt iż-Żejtun shares a recipe for success.

Tagged With: community, democracy, Environment, over-development, solidarity

Agatha Barbara: Malta’s First Woman Socialist and Feminist Role Model

March 7, 2018 · Rachael Scicluna ·

Agatha Barbara’s legacy in relation to gender equality struggle should be acknowledged, remembered and kept alive.

Tagged With: Agatha Barbara, feminism, socialism

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