By Association for Progressive Communications
In the face of widespread oppression and commodification of the global south, our hope rests on the strength of our diversity as we move together imperfectly towards our collective liberations.
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By Jared Margulies, Lecturer in Environmental Governance, UCL
Four Czech men were arrested at Guarulhos International Airport in São Paolo, Brazil in February this year on charges of smuggling native species.
Brazil is a well-known centre of the illegal bird and pet trade, but allegations of an attempted theft of more than 100 cactus plants and some 2,000 seeds were perhaps more surprising.…
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By Hilary Emmett, Associate Professor in American Studies, School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies, University of East Anglia
Thomas Ruys Smith, Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of East Anglia
How will a new generation of viewers respond to the Ingalls family and their experiences of life in an America that was still taking shape?
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By Réka Tölg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Marketing, Retail and Consumption Studies, Lund University
Ingrid Haugsrud, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Textile and Food Consumption, Oslo Metropolitan University
While care labels contain information on what washing machine programmes are suitable for garments, use of these machines should be reduced to preserve textiles.
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By Carl Senior, Reader in Behavioural Sciences, Aston University
Erik P. Bucy, Regents Professor of Strategic Communication, Texas Tech University
The UK is not usually thought of as the kind of country that’s prone to a coup d'état. Yet in the UK too, power can change hands without a general election. Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, Theresa May, Liz Truss – in each case, internal party dynamics determined who occupied 10 Downing Street.
In the current situation, all eyes are on the former mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham. It’s widely expected that Burnham will become prime minister through an internal Labour party manoeuvre rather than a…
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By Henry Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys. But once you arrive, your keys have completely disappeared from your mind.
This is sometimes known as the doorway effect, since it often strikes when you walk into a new room. Why does it happen? The answer has a lot to do with a faculty called working memory. Information gets stored in working…
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By Soroush Sabbaghan, Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
Should schools allow AI systems that don’t just answer students, but appear to care for them?
At its 2026 annual representative assembly, the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) passed a resolution that “anthropomorphic artificial intelligence tools, including AI companions and other AI systems designed specifically to simulate friendship, counselling or intimate relationships, not be deployed or introduced into any Alberta K–12 learning environments or support settings.”
At almost…
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By Ivan Savin, Associate Professor of Quantitative Analytics, ESCP Business School
Lewis King, Postdoctoral research fellow in Ecological economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
A new study reveals European public opinion goes against widely-held academic views on economic growth being counter-productive to environmental sustainability.
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By Nieves Fernández Rodríguez, Profesora y coordinadora de la Cátedra de Migraciones y Derechos Humanos, Universidad Nebrija
“Nieves, there’s been an earthquake in Venezuela.” This was how Gabriela, a Venezuelan friend of mine, interrupted our phone conversation when the news came in. She was in Berlin, and as a new mother she had not been sleeping much. Her tiredness quickly evaporated.
Within minutes, the Venezuelan diaspora groups in Colombia that I work with began to fill with messages of anguish and doubt. Thousands of kilometres away, in Madrid, Aleja woke up and read the first headlines on her phone. She thought it was just another tremor, which is not uncommon in Venezuela. But she soon grasped the…
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By Grace Khunou, Executive Director of the Department of Leadership and Transformation, University of South Africa
The Polygamist is a Netflix series that has soared up the streaming platform’s charts and triggered a global conversation about men who cheat in relationships.
It tracks the fatal ruptures in what seems like a successful upper class family, the Gomoras. Although the story plays out in South Africa, the production is a more…
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