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10.06.2026
Online Against an Offline State: The Forty-Eight Hours That Changed Nepal Politics

Samik Kharel exposes the paradox within digital organising for revolutionary action.

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10.06.2026
United in Discord: Making Sense of Gen Z Protests Society, Media and Culture

From Bangladesh to Nepal, Morocco to Peru, Gen Z-led uprisings have reshaped the political landscape across the Global South.

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10.06.2026
Searching for the “Republic of Possibility” Democracy

If certain forecasts are to be believed, Africa’s population growth augurs a future of war and societal collapse. But for some governments and NGOs, the “youth bulge” driving growth could, if instrumentalised through neoliberal processes, generate huge economic dividends. Missing from the conversation are the voices and aspirations of young Africans themselves. 

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10.06.2026
Lives Tied to Work: Inside the Kafala System Migration

Across the Middle East, millions of migrant workers sustain entire economies while remaining legally dependent on their employers through the kafala system.

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10.06.2026
Too Many, Too Few: Malthusianisation and The Politics of Population Anxiety Society, Media and Culture

The way societies measure and imagine populations profoundly shapes which futures become politically possible.

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10.06.2026
Forgotten Abroad, Needed at HomeMigration

Faced with increasing vulnerabilities, Eastern European states are trying to bring their citizens back from abroad. 

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10.06.2026
Fewer But Stronger? Workers In An Ageing Europe  Welfare and Social Issues

As falling birth rates and longer lives shrink the working-age population, tighter labour markets will become the new normal.

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10.06.2026
The Childist Case for Ageless Suffrage Welfare and Social Issues

For John Wall, the ballot box is for anyone who wishes to have a say – children included.

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10.06.2026
Women, Scapegoats of Poland’s Demographic CrisisJustice

Amid stubbornly low birth rates, Polish women are bearing the brunt of public pressure for the country's population panic.

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10.06.2026
Pronatalism in Hungary: Lessons and ImaginariesWelfare and Social Issues

Fanni Svégel on attempts to engineer a baby boom that never came – and their harmful effects on women.

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