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New in Ceasefire - Thursday, May 18, 2017 14:14 - 0 Comments
Special Report | “We are doing the right thing for the right reasons”: A view from inside Europe’s biggest arms company
Andrew Smith reports on his surreal day at the Annual General Meeting of BAE Systems, Britain's biggest arms company.
New in Ceasefire - Saturday, May 6, 2017 21:44 - 0 Comments
Ideas | Fathers and Fascism: The Oedipal Landscape of the Le Pens
Can a Freudian reading of the Le Pen family be a key to understanding tomorrow's French election? Jen Izaakson asks.
New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 11, 2017 17:01 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Augusto Boal: Legislative Theatre and Politics
In his penultimate column on the radical playwright and director Augusto Boal, Andrew Robinson examines Legislative Theatre – a method pioneered during Boal's tenure as a member of the Rio local parliament. Robinson also examines and critiques the radical democratic perspective underpinning this phase of Boal's work.
New in Ceasefire - Friday, April 7, 2017 21:22 - 1 Comment
Film | ‘Get Out’: A bone-chilling, discomfort-inducing, laughter-provoking artistic and political triumph
The surprise box office hit of the year, 'Get Out' is as an artistic and political tour-de-force that is as much informed by the Rachel Dolezal saga as it is by Black Lives Matter. Jennifer Izaakson reviews.
New in Ceasefire - Thursday, April 6, 2017 21:17 - 0 Comments
Ideas | “The revolution will be self-parody!”: Pepsi, Kendall and the Recuperation of Protest
Every once in a while, the world as it is represented to us by capitalist realism unfurls, revealing the realities behind the curtain. Pepsi's universally derided Kendall Jenner advert was such a moment, Jamie Ranger writes.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, April 5, 2017 21:50 - 0 Comments
Special Report | What was Theresa May actually doing in Saudi Arabia? And who was she doing it for?
Theresa May's Saudi visit this week is a stark reminder of the troubling, and largely hidden, relationship between the UK Government and the UK Arms industry. Joe Lo reports.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, April 4, 2017 19:02 - 1 Comment
Comment | She’s not indifferent … We are: On our Culture of Denial in the ‘War on Terror’
In the aftermath of the London attack, an image of a hijab-wearing Muslim woman went viral, and was used to signify Muslim indifference at ‘our’ suffering. In fact, the reaction to the image says more about ‘us’ and our political culture of denial, argues Fahid Qurashi.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, March 17, 2017 2:29 - 2 Comments
Comment | When is a rapist no longer a rapist? On the cost-free repentance of Tom Stranger
Two days ago, Tom Stranger was no-platformed at the South Bank Centre in London. If rapists like Stranger truly seek forgiveness, they must accept to give up power and control over the narrative. There is no redemption without loss.
In Theory, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, January 19, 2017 22:36 - 0 Comments
An A to Z of Theory | Augusto Boal: Games and Techniques
In the latest essay in his series on Augusto Boal, Andrew Robinson examines the wide range of different techniques formulated or summarised by the Brazilian playwright for revolutionising drama and life.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, January 18, 2017 10:57 - 1 Comment
Ideas | “You are not You anymore”: On the Torture of Theon Greyjoy
From Game of Thrones to Guantanamo Bay, the purpose of torture is not only to destroy an individual's sense of autonomy and self-worth, but to reconstitute them into whatever image the torturer desires.
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