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01.12.2025
Iran’s Quiet, Loud ArtSociety, Media and Culture

Despite decades of crackdown, Iranian artists continue to produce political works.

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01.12.2025
Owning the Past: Orbán’s Statue CrazeDemocracy

Quantity matters more than quality when your goal is controlling the narrative, says Kata Benedek.

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01.12.2025
Politicising Pop: The Far Right and Music Society, Media and Culture

Amidst far-right instrumentalisation, can musicians play a progressive tune? Emília Barna and Melanie Schiller talk to Konrad Bleyer-Simon.

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01.12.2025
After Growth: Culture as Foundational for DemocracyPost-Growth

Justin O’Connor views culture as part of society’s basic infrastructure.

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01.12.2025
Rural Architecture: The Future’s LaboratoryEnvironment

Rowan Jaines counts on satellites and architects to correct the rural record.

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01.12.2025
Succeeding Where Politics Fails: Cultural Festivals and the Green Transformation Society, Media and Culture

Art has a unique capacity to capture complexity, Lucile Schmid and Ladislav Miko tell Edouard Gaudot.

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01.12.2025
Soft Power, Hard Control: Culture in Communist China Geopolitics

Laurence Vandewalle breaks down the history of Chinese cultural soft power.

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01.12.2025
Climate Activism in Museums: Vandalism or Legitimate Protest? Society, Media and Culture

Activists and climate groups have carried out a series of non-violent but disruptive acts in cultural institutions. But what has driven them?

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