PinnedAristotle KallisThe age of monsters? How the COVID-19 crisis failed to reshape higher educationBack in the spring of 2020, in the midst of the first brutal wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities were forced to effectively rethink…Apr 3, 2021Apr 3, 2021
Aristotle KallisThe COVID pandemic and the new spiral of sovereigntismAmidst an ongoing global health crisis, the globalised world has been shattered and replaced by a bleak archipelago of aggressive…Apr 8, 2021Apr 8, 2021
Aristotle KallisTaboo and ‘civilisation’For centuries ‘civilisation’ has been a loaded, unstable, and ambiguous term. It has been used as a description of the present but also as…Apr 5, 2021Apr 5, 2021
Aristotle KallisThe return of fascism? Why this is the wrong question to askWhen a group of ultra-nationalist wannabes gathered in Milan in 1919 to hear firebrand leader Benito Mussolini speak, they became part of…Apr 5, 2021Apr 5, 2021
Aristotle KallisTaboo Breakers: How The Right Is Eroding Norms Of DecencyThe radical right has broken taboos in…Taboos are complex social and cultural constructions. They involve subtle prohibitions derived from supposedly accepted common standards…Apr 5, 2021Apr 5, 2021
Aristotle KallisThe ‘silent majority’: populist cliché or warning?In the run-up to the EU referendum in Britain in June 2016, at a time when the Remain vote was apparently enjoying a modest but clear…Apr 5, 2021Apr 5, 2021
