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What Post-Pandemic Normality Means to the Streets of Valletta

June 4, 2020 · Josephine Burden ·

During the pandemic, we have been forced to prioritise our private domestic spaces. Will the ‘new normality’ bring the return of the old normal: the prioritisation of commercial private spaces over common spaces and interests?

Tagged With: commons, democracy, urban planning

Construction and Hunting: Malta, between ‘Progress’ and ‘Tradition’

May 14, 2020 · Raisa Galea & Francois Zammit ·

The dusk of ‘traditional’ hunting in MaIta is near, but the coalition of NGOs is not the one that will put an end to it.

Tagged With: national identity, over-development, progress, spring hunting, tradition

Metamorfosi: l-Istorja ta’ Piramu u Tisbi

May 5, 2020 · Warren Bartolo ·

L-istorja ta’ Piramu u Tisbi (Ovidju, Metamorfosi) tradotta mill-Latin għall-Malti minn Warren Bartolo.

Tagged With: poetry

Rethinking Clientelism and Income Security: How a Job Guarantee & UBI Can Transform Our Society

May 1, 2020 · Nicole Meilak ·

Democratic economic policies like job guarantee schemes and a universal basic income could address two key issues at once—clientelism and economic precarity.

Tagged With: care economy, care jobs, clientelism, job guarantee, Universal Basic Income

Treating the ‘Other’ as Disease: Ħal Far Open Centre as a Zone of Contagion

April 29, 2020 · Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone & Daniel Vella ·

The armed presence along the perimeter of Ħal Far—essentially, the border between ‘us’ and ‘them’—was a display of state power and a pretense of care for its loyal citizens. At once, it disciplined the diseased ‘other’ and fenced the rest off from it.

Tagged With: COVID-19, democracy, discrimination, migrants, migration, racism

Social Class and Revolt in Parasite and Joker

April 18, 2020 · Jana Tsoneva ·

While Joker depicts the anti-capitalist rebellion as merely an aesthetic dead-end event, led by a madman on a killing spree, Parasite constructs a figure of the working class that does not attempt a rebellion when crushed by the system.

Tagged With: class identities, film review, neoliberalism, social class

[LISTEN] COVID-19 and Solidarity: a Wish List of Government Measures in the Time of Crisis

April 9, 2020 · The IotL Magazine ·

Crisis must not be an excuse for discrimination and injustice. On the contrary, solidarity is our weapon during these difficult times.

Tagged With: COVID-19, economy, solidarity, worker's rights

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