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Climate Crisis
All the Ways Decarbonizing will Save us Loads of Money and Create all Kinds of Jobs

All the Ways Decarbonizing will Save us Loads of Money and Create all Kinds of Jobs

The Conversation

By Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University | – The three most prevalent myths about tackling climate change allege that transitioning to renewable energy jacks up household bills, requires massive amounts of government subsidy and creates mass unemployment. These concerns are all (thankfully) false. With fellow academics, I studied instances from the past 30 years when […]

Authoritarianism
3 ways these latest Iran Demonstrations are different from past Protests

3 ways these latest Iran Demonstrations are different from past Protests

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By Naser Ghobadzadeh, Australian Catholic University | – Once again, Iran is in the midst of political upheaval and civil unrest. The latest protests, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police, follow several other protests that have occurred in Iran over recent years. So what is new […]

Feminism
Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently

Iranian women have been rebelling against restrictions since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 – with renewed hope that protests this time will end differently

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By Pardis Mahdavi, The University of Montana | – Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in custody of the “morality police” in Tehran. These protests have echoes from past resistance movements. For the past […]

Feminism
Iran protests: majority of people reject compulsory hijab and an Islamic regime, surveys find

Iran protests: majority of people reject compulsory hijab and an Islamic regime, surveys find

The Conversation

By Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Utrecht University and Ammar Maleki, Tilburg University | – (The Conversation) – A young woman’s death in custody in Iran on September 16 has sparked nationwide protests. Mahsa Amini’s fatal injuries resulted from an arrest and beating by the country’s hijab police, which enforces the mandatory and “correct” way of wearing […]

Feminism
Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

Unrest across Iran Continues under State’s extreme Gender Apartheid

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By Haidar Khezri, University of Central Florida | – Unrest continues to erupt across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, who died after being arrested and reportedly beaten by Iran’s morality police. The Iranian force took Mahsa (Zhina) Amini into detention on Sept. 16, 2022, for not wearing her hijab according […]

Dissent
Iran on fire: Once again, women are on the vanguard of transformative change

Iran on fire: Once again, women are on the vanguard of transformative change

The Conversation

By Vrinda Narain, McGill University and Fatemeh Sadeghi, UCL | – On Sept. 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in Tehran, Iran, while in police custody. Amini was arrested by the Guidance Patrol, the morality squad of the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran that oversees public implementation of […]

Colonialism
How Whiteness was Invented and Fashioned in Britain’s Colonial Age of Expansion

How Whiteness was Invented and Fashioned in Britain’s Colonial Age of Expansion

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By Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta | – (The Conversation)- Fashion is political — today as in the past. As Britain’s Empire dramatically expanded, people of all ranks lived with clothing and everyday objects in startlingly different ways than generations before. The years between 1660 and 1820 saw the expansion of the British empire and […]

Donald Trump
White Nationalism is a Political Ideology that mainstreams racist Conspiracy Theories

White Nationalism is a Political Ideology that mainstreams racist Conspiracy Theories

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By Sara Kamali, University of California San Diego | – In September 2022, President Joe Biden convened a summit called United We Stand to denounce the “venom and violence” of white nationalism ahead of the midterm elections. His remarks repeated the theme of his prime-time speech in Philadelphia on Sept. 1, 2022, during which he […]

Arab World
The Mahsa Effect: Iran protest at enforced Veiling sparks online Debate and feminist Calls for Action across Arab World

The Mahsa Effect: Iran protest at enforced Veiling sparks online Debate and feminist Calls for Action across Arab World

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By Balsam Mustafa, University of Warwick | – (The Conversation) – Iranian authorities have cracked down on protests which erupted after the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing the hijab appropriately. The death of Mahsa Amini who was reportedly beaten after being arrested for […]

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