Culture and media
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.
We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.
Taking our cue from Raymond Williams’ ‘culture is ordinary’, we explore how politics works through old and new media, books, film, stage and screen, music and sport.
We cover a breadth of themes, from representations of class, race and gender in the arts, to progressive and reactionary uses of nostalgia, to the grassroots voices democratising the channels of communication.
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Tapping technology in Nairobi’s informal settlements
Prince Guma reflects on how new digital technologies for water provision have been adapted – and subverted – in informal settlements in Nairobi
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Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia – review
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan’s book does not shy away from vital connections between Islamophobia and the forces of global capitalism, writes Farzana Khan
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Volt Rush – Review
Henry Sanderson’s account of capital’s increasing interest in green technology should be cause for alarm, not relief, argues Madoc Cairns
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Cinema on the move
Inventive films are helping shift migration narratives from suffering to empowerment while expanding the politics of possibility, argue Lily Parrott and Laura Stahnke
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Red Valkyries – review
In exploring the lives of the revolutionary socialist feminists of the past, Red Valkyries demonstrates the value and importance of feminism in the 21st century, argues Rachel Collett
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Navigating the apocalypse through popular culture
From plague and pandemics to zombies and ‘cli-fi’, apocalyptic narratives have long reflected and shaped the anxieties of our age, write Siobhan McGuirk and Marzena Zukowska
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Black British history is much more than Windrush
Noah Anthony Enahoro argues that the long history of black people in the UK is minimised by focusing solely on twentieth century immigration