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Not Returning to Normality: Transport in a Post-pandemic Future

June 26, 2020 · Miguel Azzopardi ·

Let us not forget the lessons we’ve learned during the quarantine and the better air quality we enjoyed during those few months. We all should be more willing to embrace a new model of transport.

Tagged With: Environment, Malta Public Transport, public transport

Why We Need a Decolonial Ecology

June 19, 2020 · Aurore Chaillou, Louise Roblin and Malcolm Ferdinand ·

We need to link the exploitation of bodies to that of lands. If we start from the principle that there are continuities between bodies and ecosystems, we realise that to harm one is to harm the other. This prism helps us to understand anti-slavery revolts also as resistance to this colonial habitation.

Tagged With: colonialism, Environment

Il-Pesta tas-Soċjetà Moderna

June 10, 2020 · Kurt Borg ·

Filwaqt li nifhem li din il-pandemija ġabet magħha diffikultajiet ġodda, urietna b’mod iktar ċar ix-xquq li kienu diġà preżenti fis-sistema ekonomika u politika dominanti qabel inqala’ dan kollu.

Tagged With: COVID-19, democracy, migration

Lest We Forget: Before Lassana, There Was Suleiman

June 8, 2020 · Francesco Frendo ·

Suleiman Abubaker suffered a fractured skull and lung contusions when he was thrown out of the club in May 2009. He fell into a coma and died 11 days later.

Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, racism

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

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

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