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Regeni and Zaky: field researchers at the forefront risking their lives
There’s still no truth and justice for the death of Giulio Regeni. Patrick Zaky has just been arrested and tortured. The life of students and researchers is continuously under threat in Egypt.
Period: a documentary about menstruation wins the Oscar
Worldwide, people who menstruate face multiple difficulties: taboo, exclusion from public places, inaccessibility to items like sanitary pads and tampons, and many others.
Femvertising: through an Italian lens
Femvertising: the new tendency in the advertising industry that overcomes the so far stereotyped female images produced by media. Through a brief analysis of what in the italian advertising sector has been the tendency, by now, of exploiting the female body, Vanessa Putignano supports the shift towards a fair representation of the multidimensionality of life and bodies.
How Matteo Salvini used the threat of immigrant invasion to conquer the electorate
Matteo Salvini has managed to transform a small regionalist party – that less than 10 years ago was advocating for the secession of an imaginary land called “Padania” from the rest of Italy – into a country-wide nationalist party after becoming federal secretary of...
Ashes and sawdust from the Amazon to Australia and a list of culpable entities
Since the beginning of 2019 the world’s largest forests, are being decimated by uncontrollable blazes and processes of deforestation. The parties responsible for the climate crisis and environmental exploitation are not unknown.
The need to reshape democracies
Deliberative democracy is known to a few, but it might represent a solution to democracy’s crisis, media’s misinformation and citizen’s political involvement.
The sustainable potential of the Black Soldier Fly in the food and feed industry
Using insects in the food and feed sectors? No more an oddity! Studies are focusing on how to exploit some features they possess that make them the best candidates to close the circle of a food chain that is currently broken.
The Immigrant Invasion: European psychodrama and political opportunism
Migrants in all parts of Europe have been used as scapegoats by parties that have told voters that refusing them in their countries would have guaranteed more security. These parties have grown tremendously despite the fact that the number of migrants arriving every year has dropped continuously. How was it possible?
Economic inequality: cause and effect of populism?
In many countries where economic inequality is high, populist movements have emerged. These movements have often promised to fight inequality. But have they succeeded?
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