Culture

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

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

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

Across Europe, arts and culture are facing defunding, job precarity, censorship, marginalisation, and instrumentalisation by economic and political agendas. How do we assert the value of culture and protect artistic freedom in this challenging landscape? And under what conditions can culture meaningfully contribute to the ecological transformation?

This editorial introduces Acting Out: Arts and Culture Under Pressure, the winter 2025 print edition of the Green European Journal.

Luiza Bialasiewicz and Annalisa Colombino respond to the weaponisation of disgust with political laughter.

Lorenzo Marsili investigates the ills of a provincialised Europe in our age of empires.

Although the threat facing the Amazon region is well-known, it is hard to truly grasp the severity of the situation through scientific facts alone.

Theatre can be used to bring people together to devise solutions to daunting systemic abuses.

Plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our water consumption habits.

Once a means of survival, pickling and jamming traditions are now making a comeback. Can they be recognised for their cultural heritage?