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The Other Europe: Istanbul and the Crossways of Civilizations (opens the original)
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In 1054 in Constantinople (now Istanbul), the Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox and the Western Latin Christian Churches began. Or so the story goes. As you will discover the petty dispute between clerics has been greatly exaggerated, especially after Europe was divided ideologically after 1917. 1054 did not mark a cleavage between civilizations, though it contributed to a belief that the great city of Istanbul was part of the Other Europe - an unreliable, shadowy mixture of the wrong fa
The Other Europe: The Pagan North and the Ragnarök of Climate Change (opens the original)
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In 540 CE a volcano erupted at Ilopango in today’s Guatemala. It changed the course of European history. This is how the story of Ragnarök began. Not with a Roman whimper, but a Central American bang.Subscribe nowWelcome to The Other Europe SeriesOver the next month, I will be travelling to Europe, to the other Europe of Istanbul and to cities East of Vienna. In Istanbul, I will attend the inaugural East-West Forum, an initiative of the wonderful Ulrike
The Illiberal Imaginary of One Cohesive Nation & Interview with Marlène Laruelle (opens the original)
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This week the world has debated illiberalism, migration and nostalgia for national political communities. I spoke with one of the world’s leading experts on these issues, Marlène Laruelle, historian, sociologist, and political scientist.And I also reflected on Marlène Laruelle’s concept of the political imaginary and a new imaginative history of globalisation to develop an alternative vision of cooperation in a society of islands. The interview with Marlène Laruelle is a must-watch. I introduce
Deep History of Migration & Strangers on My Island Home (Australia) (opens the original)
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In Part One of my Monthly Long Read on Decolonisation and Migration I reflected on the banshee screams warning of cultural death by migration. I wrote:“we should not fear the migrant or the stranger within. We should make the stranger a guest within. We should acknowledge we all came from somewhere else.”The Migration Shock & Resentment of Lost National CohesionSadly, the voters of Saxon
The Migration Shock & Resentment of Lost National Cohesion (opens the original)
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I have been thinking this month about three paired issues: migration and de/colonisation; the imagined cohesive nation and social fragmentation; and illiberalism and ressentiment. Several months ago I scheduled the topic of migration for this month’s Long Read. The news cycle has not let me down. From Ceuta to Saxony-Anhalt, even down here in Melbourne, banshees scream warnings of cultural death by migration. This Long Read reflects on how colonisation is inflected through two fundamental human
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