Political Critique Archive

There is a creative Sicily, an island that narrates itself on the walls of the cities and small towns. Discovering it means abandoning preconceptions, opening oneself up to new points of view about this symbolically charged place. In order to document it, Mauro Filippi, an architect and photographer, Marco Mondino, a semiologist, and Luisa Tuttolomondo, a sociologist, […]

The divide between the capitalist West and the communist East was alimentary as much as political. Over 25 years after the fall of communism in Europe, V4 leaders believe that in their countries citizens still buy second-rate food.

Across her diverse body of work, Carmen Castro, a specialist in European Gender Policies, offers a fierce criticism of the system that surrounds us, focusing on gender inequality in the jobs market and in particular on ‘self-care’, 'time’ and 'labour’. She maintains that patriarchal domination extends from the domestic level to the 'macro’ level, via […]

Interview with Peter Saunders, the chief of The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Great Britain) and a suspended member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and Vulnerable People that was created by Pope Francis.

For years Italy has held the unfortunate reputation as a basket case country, plagued by corrupt institutions and a zombie economy that was stagnating long before the crisis of 2008. From clientalism and mafia, to unemployment, debt and the refugee crisis, Italians have faced major political tests, with little power to shape their future at […]

The second chapter of the book by David R. Pichaske: „The long, low light of late afternoon washes the scene in the warmth peculiar to that time of day, and for a second I think I’ve wandered into some nineteenth century landscape… or one of those village scenes, painted just last year in the style of the Old Masters, sold in Łódź art galleries for $20.”

Political Critique’s weekly selection from the Eastern European press.

Who is behind Black Lives Matter Denmark? How do they fight against racism and how did it all get started? Bwalya Sørensen and Talk Real at TRANSEUROPA festival 2017.

We have to dive a little bit deeper to find the root causes of the opioid epidemic because only then will you have different solutions. Because there is not one solution, this crisis has multiple roots, therefore, it needs multiple responses.

For decades, countries that were formerly part of Yugoslavia have been politically, economically and culturally intertwined; a shift in one neighboring country has rarely gone unnoticed in another. Such is the case with the region’s LGBT movement, with pioneers never failing to mention that personal, as well as professional relationships, along with a strong sense […]