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  • Patriarchy, family, feminism

    Hunter-gatherers: gender equality, a key factor in human evolution?

    5 June 2015, by Jean Batou

    The social organization of humanity before the advent of agriculture tells us a lot about the context in which our species evolved over tens of thousands of years. It is in fact distinguished from that of primates by a more intense collaboration between individuals, which allows the development of a "cumulative culture." Researchers have just shown why gender equality may explain this propensity to associate a higher number of individuals coming from different groups (M. Dyble et al., "Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands ", Science, 15 May 2015).

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  • European History

    Inside the European Cataclysm

    4 June 2015, by Enzo Traverso

    Writing on a century of violence since the Great War, as World War I was once called, could easily turn into a gallery of horrors or an awful, monotonous succession of wars and genocide, from the battle of Verdun to Baghdad, from the Armenian to the Rwanda genocide, passing through Auschwitz and the Gulag.

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  • Feminism and Intersectionality

    Is Feminism about ’Women’? A Critical View on Intersectionality from India

    18 May 2015, by Nivedita Menon

    Feminism requires us to recognise that "women" is neither a stable nor a homogeneous category. Does intersectionality as a universal framework help us to capture this complexity? This paper argues that it does not. It addresses this question through the intricacies of the terrain that feminist politics must negotiate, using the Indian experience to set up conversations with feminist debates and experiences globally. Feminism is heterogeneous and internally differentiated. We need to pay attention to challenges to the stability of given identities— including those of "individual" and "woman." These challenges constitute the radically subversive moments that are likely to be most productive for feminism in the 21st century.

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  • Environment

    The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left

    13 May 2015, by Alan Thornett

    In this presentation I want to advance four propositions that may be controversial:

    • That biodiversity is the planet’s most valuable resource. It is also its most abused and threatened.

    • That the biodiversity collapse we are witnessing today—the greatest mass extinction of species for 65 million years—is the most fundamental aspect of the whole environmental crisis.

    • That most left environmentalists—including Marxist and socialist environmentalists—have failed to adequately recognise or address it.

    • That this represents a serious failing in the overall approach of the left, including the Marxist left, to the environmental crisis.

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