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Category Archives: Newsletter
Curry and Identity
The centrality of food and consumption for most issues of social and cultural concern can, to my opinion, not be over-emphasized. Food practices are constitutive of social identities and cultural differentiation. “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are”, a phrase originally coined in the 1820s by Brillat-Savarin, a French [...]
Posted in Food & Consumption, Issue 3 - Migration
Tagged Food & Consumption, Immigration
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Editorial III
Dear Reader,
welcome to the World Community of Migrants…
…that you are part of yourself! This Maas-Media issue is about migration. Discussions among Europeans about migration tend to convey a sense of urgency. Western nations states apparently are on the fringe of something dramatic. Either of exploding from the latest influx of migrants or of imploding from [...]
A Right to have Rights?
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. [...]
Posted in Free, Issue 3 - Migration
Tagged Europe, Fortress Europe, Free, Immigration
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The Rise of Climate-Change Art
Vision of a tragic future? … Tomás Saraceno’s Biospheres at the Rethink exhibition in Copenhagen. Photograph: Anders Sune Berg
In the past decades, policy makers have given great attention to making cities or nations more sustainable. We, as citizens of the world, have to reconsider our obligations and responsibilities regarding our planet, too, because policy makers [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Issue 2 - Climate Justice
Tagged Arts & Culture, Climate Justice, Copenhagen
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Copenhagen Accord to Jump on the Bandwagon of Irresponsibility
Putting nearly two-hundred negotiators at a table is unlikely to produce agreements that live up to everyone’s expectations. Accordingly, either bargains end in a clearer and stronger deal under the leadership of some actors, which however might not be supported and in the case of a treaty or declaration, not signed by others. Or negotiators [...]
Technology for Ten Billion People
Reinder vanTijen, Founder of Demotech
Climate justice and technology are intrinsically linked subjects. Technology is at the heart of the industrial revolution, which on the one hand brought about the prosperity and development we currently enjoy in the North.
On the other hand, it is also the root cause of increased greenhouse gas emissions and ongoing climate [...]
On Slavoj Zizek
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 [...]
Editorial II
Dear Friends,
More than two months since the publication of the inauguratory issue of the fabulous grassroots media initiative that is Maas Media, we are finally back with the much anticipated second issue, as we step into the second decade of this new century. Needless to say, in these last two months, several highly significant events [...]
Consumer Lifestyles and Economic Growth
The current economy is fundamentally dependent on growth and its correlate: consumerism. The results of this form of capitalist expansion in the context of globalization continue to pose serious challenges to human well-being and destroy the environment. An ever expanding economy that relies on growing consumption (and therefore fosters cultures of consumerism) is a [...]
Posted in Food & Consumption, Issue 2 - Climate Justice
Tagged Climate Justice, Food & Consumption, TED
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Miru Kim Takes Pictures
When I discovered Miru Kim’s arts, I became interested in how she created the idea of her arts project called Naked City Spleen, photographs composed out of hidden, abandoned caves, structures, surroundings or places and herself, naked, in them. The effect is enthralling – it shows the vulnerability, but at the same time the eroticism [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Issue 1 - Alter Globalization
Tagged Arts & Culture, North America, Urban Art
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