Category Archives: Free

A Right to have Rights?

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Conrad
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The article of the free section of the current MaasMedia Issue on Migration deals with the arrest of an Armenian family in Maastricht with the purpose of their detention. It is written by Sophie Hinger, a student at the University College Maastricht and member of the migration research group under the guidance of dr. René Gabriels. [...]

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On Slavoj Zizek

Posted on January 27, 2010 by zaimoon
Slavoj Zizek - Photo by Kate Milford

Slavoj Zizek – Photo by Kate Milford
 
“This is where we should start when we talk about ecology” says an eccentric, accented voiceover with the image frame a massive pile of garbage.

Our second submission for the ‘free’ category of the Maas Media newsletter is a short video clip taken from Astra Taylor’s 2008 film Examined [...]

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How to Judge Globalism

Posted on November 7, 2009 by admin
Amartya Sen - Photo by Elke Wetzig

What is globalisation? From where does it arise? How does its contemporary meaning transform our understanding of it? Commencing trough the earliest migrations of human knowledge and ideas, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen invites us on a journey across the different meanings and implications of ‘globalism’ over the centuries.

If for many, modern globalism might be understood [...]

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