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Wednesday, 3 Sep 2025
Megaprojects, whether focused on natural resource extraction or infrastructure development, often result in significant changes to the landscape, population, and local economy, frequently causing harm to the environment, as well as disrupting established ways of living and social structures within communities.
Since the war on terror began, Muslim minorities living in Western countries have been increasingly treated as potentially radical individuals in cahoots with Islamist groups, and often as an urgent threat to national security. This process of growing surveillance and stigmatization has contributed shaping an Islamophobic discourse and discriminatory policies.
Tuesday, 30 Sep 2025
According to neuroscientist Rafael Yuste, founding member of NeuroRights Foundation, “We are entering a world, where technologies no longer simply threaten our bodies. They are directly affecting our minds”.
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Thursday, 13 Feb 2025
Compounds labelled as chemical weapons and pesticides share common active chemical ingredients, which function as nerve agents to humans and insects whether they are considered a form of warfare or a farming staple. Lice: Image from Pixabay Why are such substances considered acceptable and necessary in the context of agriculture ...
Friday, 31 Jan 2025
Image byLukasfromPixabay Millions of consumers play videogames like Call of Duty and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon. The battlefields these series portray increasingly feature drones, tanks, and robots that select and engage targets on their own, thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) enhancements. Although prior research suggests that pop-culture portrayals like these ...
Image byJim BlackfromPixabay In international political sociology, a variety of scholars following Agamben and the so-called state of exception emphasize the routes of violence against migrants in the light of their privation of rights or “suspended law”. While acknowledging that law creates at times violent conditions, this scholarship tends to ...
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