Romina Green Rioja is an assistant professor in Latin American History at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. She researches racial formation in 19th-century Chile and the modern-day feminist movement in Argentina and Chile. Her forthcoming book under contract with the University of Alabama Press is preliminarily titled The German Turn: Settler Ideology and Racial Education in Modern Chile.
The latest issue of Merkur, the German journal, takes aim at one of the increasingly popular descriptions of contemporary capitalism: “neofeudalism”. The term has gained currency as political and economic power becomes
For years, progressive intellectuals, activists and cultural figures have argued that political imagination has weakened, leaving societies poorly equipped to confront the exhaustion of neoliberalism and ecological collapse. The response has been a call for new forms of utopian thinking
China’s state television has released rare footage of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) counter-drone units conducting live-fire drills featuring laser weapons, high-power microwave systems and
China’s Ministry of State Security has warned of what it described as genetic resource theft and other cross-border biosecurity risks, citing cases in which
Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor disappeared. A young man is
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