Isles of the Left is in partnership with Political Critique and the Green European Journal.

Political Critique is a pan-European online magazine for democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation-state whose main premises is to combine and confront different perspectives. 

The Green European Journal is an editorially independent publication of the Green European Foundation. Its printed editions, released two times a year, take an in-depth look at topics from a range of different perspectives.

 

We are independent, allied with no political party, young, enthusiastic, and committed to social justice—in other words,

“we are the ones we have been waiting for“.

 

                    Joseph Abela

is a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Malta who questions the world around him.

 

 

 

 

                    Marco Attard

is a writer and bon vivant. His chief interests are popular culture, good food and the collapse of Empire.

 

 

 

 

                    Kurt Borg

is a PhD candidate in philosophy, researching the ethics and politics of narrating trauma in institutional contexts, with a particular focus on the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. His interests include cultural politics, political & critical theory, philosophy and emotions, disability studies, mental health issues, and trauma theory.

 

 

 

                     Josephine Burden

is a writer and traveller now based in Valletta. Her background is in Community Cultural Development as an academic and practitioner. She now wonders about that. Her recent publications include Washing up in Malta (2012, 2014), Songs for a Blind Date (2013) and Middle Sea Dreaming: Short Stories on a Long Journey (Pending).

 

 

 

                    Bernard Cauchi

teaches history at St Albert the Great College in Valletta. His interests include education, politics and what lies in between.

 

 

 

 

                    Raisa Galea

is a researcher at the University of Malta and a freelance writer with a keen interest in environment and techno-politics. Her articles featured in Jacobin, the Green European Journal, Political Critique and Malta Today. She is a tireless explorer of Malta’s society.

 

 

 

 

                    Martin Galea De Giovanni

is a long time environmental activist and current director of Friends of the Earth Malta.

 

 

 

 

                    Michael Grech

teaches philosophy at the Junior College of the University of Malta. He writes sporadically in local newspapers.

 

 

 

 

                     Abigail Muscat

is a PhD researcher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands working on food systems, bioenergy and EU policies on the bioeconomy.

 

 

 

 

                      Alicia Said

is a post-doctoral fellow in Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Her research is focused on Small Scale Fisheries. She feels honored to have been born and raised in the countryside.

 

 

 

 

                     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).

 

 

                     Francois Zammit

is a teacher of philosophy with a particular interest in ethics and political theory. Over the years he has worked on topics ranging from transhumanism, terrorism, Bataille, and education. His rationale in life is that the only way to move forward is by understanding the complexity and interconnectedness of human realities.