December is a time students tend to look forward to, since it is a break from attending school/university for several weeks. It’s is also a time where international students can look forward to going home and seeing their families and friends. December, however, can also be a very stressful timeRead More →
500 billion plastic bags used each year 13 million tonnes of plastic leaked into the ocean each year 17 million barrels of oil used on plastic production each year 1 million plastic bottles bought every minute 100,000 marine animals killed by plastics each year 100 years for plastic to degradeRead More →
A changing world requires changing tools. However, this does not mean that we humans are always able to keep up with these changes. Additionally, globalization dramatically increased inequality. Both within and between countries disparity is growing fast and, in order to help unify a world that is becoming increasingly fractured,Read More →
Learning from Ecuador to Address Global Problems Locally. Buen viviris a broad concept still under elaboration and represents a plurality of theoretical perspectives, practical realisations, and positions from a variety of actors including indigenous groups, social movements, intellectuals, and politicians. In its most general interpretation, it denotes and aims atRead More →
Third Culture Kid – A child raised in a culture other than their parents’ (or the culture of the country given on the child’s passport, where they are legally considered native) for a significant part of their early development years. The term was coined by anthropologists John and Ruth Hill Useem inRead More →
What is Feminism? Think for just a moment about your personal definition of Feminism. Difficult, huh? And what about the “official” and worldly accepted one? …almost impossible, as I figured. The point is that we hear a lot of talks about Feminism but, still, it seems the world hasn’t comeRead More →
The “Trump of the Tropics” is the favorite presidential candidate in Brazil. In this article I will analyze why minorities declare they will vote for him, by comparing to Arlie Hochchild’s metaphor of the “line-cutters”. Read More →
As Estonia became the first European country to introduce e-democracy, namely a digital version of the “traditional democracy”, it has become a model for the rest to follow. Indeed, it has added a new dimension to our concept not only of democracy, but also of participation and nation states. Named byRead More →
A few thousand years ago, it was incredible to imagine a society built up on money. If we look at the history of humankind, money only exists in a very small part of it, namely just in the last few millennia; it is a very new trend, if you wish.Read More →
“However, once technology enables us to re-engineer human minds, Homo sapiens will disappear, human history will come to an end and a completely new kind of process will begin, which people like you and me cannot comprehend. Many scholars try to predict how the world will look in the yearRead More →