Global Ethics

Suffering and Dependence: How Colonialist Discourse Denies African Statehood

Julian Izzo • Dec 16 2022 • Essays

To question decolonisation is to perpetuate the Hegelian notion of Africa’s historical immobility, and this can only be shed by the complete overthrow of the settler.

Transitional Justice in Colombia: Between Retributive and Restorative Justice

Lluc Torrella Llauger • Nov 16 2022 • Essays

Colombia’s Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition (SIVJRNR) presents a mixed restorative and retributive justice approach in peace building.

Reproductive Justice in Occupied Palestine: Biopolitical Policies and Experience

Sanchita Aggarwal • Nov 6 2022 • Essays

Israeli Occupation through its Zionist strategies, manifestations of terror, curfews, surveillance, and violence restricts Palestinian women’s reproductive choices.

Multiple Worlds of Trauma: Methodology, Eurocentrism, and the Colonial Traumatic

Mateus S. Borges • Nov 2 2022 • Essays

This essay discusses if and where it is possible to draw the defining line(s) of trauma amidst a diversity of perspectives without depoliticizing or/and colonizing it.

Dr. Strangelove: Deterrence as a Power of Absence

Chenglong Yin • Aug 23 2022 • Essays

Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb illustrates the power of absence in the discourse of nuclear deterrence.

North Korean Female Defectors in China: Human Trafficking and Exploitation

Kristin Hynes • Aug 9 2022 • Essays

Already in a vulnerable position, North Korean defectors, particularly women, are susceptible to human trafficking. Chinese policy can tackle or enhance this issue.

The Sky is Not the Limit: The Billionaires’ Space Race Read Through Buen Vivir

Heloísa Traiano • Aug 8 2022 • Essays

The billionaire’s space race is critiqued as being exclusionary and individualistic (resulting from Western subjectivities) with the ethical framework of Buen Vivir.

Beyond Agent vs. Instrument: The Neo-Coloniality of Drones in Contemporary Warfare

Niklas Balbon • Aug 3 2022 • Essays

Are drones instruments or drivers of neocolonialism? Maybe both. Drone warfare gives its wielders means to project “necropower”, but it also reshapes of norms on warfare.

Shifting Constitution of Indigeneity in (Post-)Colonial Brazil

Qi Zhang • Jun 18 2022 • Essays

Indigenous peoples’ reality remains one of refusing to be mourned as (near-)extinct, refusing to be written out of history, and refusing to relinquish to a capitalist ideology.

Australia: International Agreements as Obligation in the Case of Climate Change

Chris Fitzgerald • Mar 20 2022 • Essays

The high-emitting state of Australia has obligations considering its international agreements: especially vis-à-vis its vulnerable Pacific Island state neighbours.

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