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Education in Malta: a Beacon of Equal Opportunity or a Means of Segregation?

March 12, 2020 · The IotL Magazine ·

Isn’t free and equal education for all the bastion of equal opportunity? Not if the education system segregates children according to the thickness of their parents’ wallets.

Tagged With: education, equality, segregation

‘Militant Feminist’: the Straw Woman, or Battles with a Feminist You Never Met

March 5, 2020 · Daiva Repečkaitė ·

Feminism needs ambition to achieve change, but for the sake of appearing ‘nice’ and non-threatening, activists have to dedicate much effort and emotional labour to soothing their critics’ fears. 

Tagged With: feminism, gender equality, International Women's Day

MeTooEP: Rooting Out Sexual Harassment in the European Parliament

March 4, 2020 · Beatrice White ·

The political sphere has also been a focal point of sexual harassment allegations, and in the European Parliament, a group of young feminists are determined to fight back.

Tagged With: #MeToo, feminism, gender equality

Mass Panic, Public Health and the Economy: How the Coronavirus Scare Exposed Our Wrong Priorities

March 2, 2020 · Alexander Clayman ·

A selective approach to self-quarantine is another inconsistency the coronavirus scare has exposed. If the virus really is as threatening as the media portrays it (although it is not), then what about tourists?

Tagged With: COVID-19, democracy, public health

Fitness and Its Discontents: The Pursuit of the High-Status Body as Therapy. Part 1.

February 29, 2020 · David Vella ·

We live in a culture that tends to define the self in accordance to the status of its body and the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle. The corporal self-identity of contemporary times frequently goes under the name of ‘fitness’. It is a measure of aptitude for life in consumer culture and a service economy.

Tagged With: capitalism, consumerism, fitness

Queues and Empty Shelves Reveal Our Fear of an Uncertain Future

February 26, 2020 · Raisa Galea ·

Deep down, everyone embarking on a panicked shopping spree harboured no illusion about the time and place they inhabit. They simply understood that, in a society where nobody cares about the needs of others, their security is their own concern. 

Tagged With: capitalism, COVID-19, uncertain future

Can Malta Become Carbon Neutral by 2030?

February 25, 2020 · Miguel Azzopardi ·

Governments, present and future, should be obliged to act on the declared climate emergency and the ecological crisis facing us, which is an emergency indeed.

Tagged With: climate action, climate change, decarbonisation, Environment

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