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A new book explores the country’s history, from world famous rock art to colonial genocide and the struggle for freedom.
In the Wicked sequel, Elphaba is an ecological and political disruptor, reclaiming agency for herself and for the natural world she strives to protect.
You don’t need to be a rebel to defy. Defiance isn’t about personality, it’s a practice – one that’s becoming essential in workplaces, politics and everyday life.
We’ve scoured the city for the most engaging art experiences so you don’t have to – and most of the shows are free!
Interviews with 30 Iranian Canadians help to untangle the roots of political tensions and evolving solidarities in the Iranian diaspora in Canada.
Those asking how to counter the far right might look at the communities in Italy where partisan resistance was strong.
In this interview, Cheryl Thompson, author of ‘Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict and Freedom, 1812-1897’ reveals some of the surprising truths of her research.
Good resistance fighters aren’t scared to take risks.
Graphic artist Victoria Lomasko’s journey highlights how censorship has intensified in Russia.
Resistance doesn’t exist on its own, but in opposition to a larger force. Often these bigger forces — like capitalism, white supremacy, the patriarchy — shape the power structures that rule society.
In Sudan, amid a growing humanitarian crisis caused by a year-long and ongoing war, neighbourhood organizations have stepped in as first responders, and to lead the call for peace.
Skateparks show how the built environment can be transformed if communities, and the DIY cultures they give birth to, are allowed to flourish.
A football’s dimensions, pressure and texture affect its aerodynamics, i.e. the forces exerted by the air on the ball as it flies.
Scholars say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities and museums are part of an ongoing project to destroy Palestinian people, identity and ideas.
Our playlist is a collection of songs on the theme of resilience, reflection and revolution, inspired by the topics we cover on our Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast.
Anna “Kakurukaze” Mungunda became the most widely acknowledged face of the resistance to the apartheid policy of forced removal.
Claims about the discovery of a coveted room-temperature superconductor peppered the news in 2023. We pulled three stories from our archives on what superconductivity is and why scientists study it.
Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.
A few marine mammals in apparent revolt pushed meme-makers into overdrive. But a scholar who thinks about justice and human-animal relations suggests something deeper is behind the schadenfreude.
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Photonics and Quantum Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
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Professeure en sciences de l’information et de la communication, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)
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Associate Professor of History, Villanova University
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
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Directrice de recherche au CNRS, en affectation à l'Institut français d'études anatoliennes (IFEA) à Istanbul, Université de Tours
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Anthropologist, Sterling Prof Political Science; Acting Dir Agrarian Studies, Yale University
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Maître de conférences, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)