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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Harnessing ‘the right within’ in Croatia and Greece
How ‘right-wing factions’ enable governing parties to draw support from the more socially conservative layers of...
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Published in: Global ExtremesRethinking secularism : Can Europe integrate its Muslims?
A new understanding of secularism represents Europe’s best chance for finding a way forward.
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhat will 2020 bring? Finding our way in a more polarised world
As 2020 and a new decade begins, why are we more polarised than ever before and can we do anything about it?
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhy Muslim-majority countries need secular citizenship and law-making
Islam is neither an instrument of identity politics, nor an ideology offering political solutions.
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Published in: Global ExtremesThe perils of mixing religion and politics: the case of Turkey
Mixing religion with politics does not even serve religious purposes.
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Published in: Global ExtremesIn India: secularism or multiculturalism?
What can we make of the ‘return’ of secularism to the centre of political debate in India?
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Published in: Global ExtremesWhat is the ‘proper’ place of religion?
The reality of multiculturalism in Western Europe has reawakened debates around religion’s relation to politics and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?To truly honour the victims of the Holocaust, let’s fight hate every day
“The fight against hate is a challenge that must be met every day, not once a year.”
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The politics of worship in Montenegro
“The entire Democratic Front Caucus was taken away from the parliament building in two police vans, while the...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhile two popes battle it out in Rome, evangelists come out on top
While the ideological divergences between the two popes are in dispute, evangelism in the region continues to grow...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHarry and Meghan, the royal family of surveillance capitalism
From tabloid nationalism to international Instagram influencers: Meghan and Harry aren’t leaving the monarchy, they...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Trump is outrageous – but US foreign policy is the killer
Trump’s assassination of Qessim Soleimani follows a policy of international lawlessness that has been supported by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Struggling against fascism: second open letter
It is more crucial than ever for each one of us to be skeptical of othering discourse in whatever form it takes.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismThe “genocide on mothers”: moral panic underpinning anti-gender campaigns in Czechia
Has the new femonationalism solved the riddle of how to be a strong woman while supporting a fundamentally...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismThe new age politics of gender in the Hindutva movement and faith-based identity contestation
While motherhood may be associated with nurturing bodies and minds, in contemporary Hindu nationalist discourse it...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismThe ‘gender turn’ of the populist radical right
Gender perspectives are essential to understanding the means through which populist radical right parties...
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Published in: 50.50‘God Has A New Africa’: Undercover in a US-led anti-LGBT ‘hate movement’
This year, I did something I never thought I would: I went undercover to investigate a group that hates me. This is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationThe campaigns trying to turn British Indians against each other
This election is turning Britain’s minority communities against each other – and the tensions could reverberate for years.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightRomania’s history wars: on the sufferings of fascist saints
How do memories about fascism and communism shape Romanian identity and party politics?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The rise of the far right in Spain
A revival of far-right sentiment is currently gripping Spain.