Author: Georgio Konstandi
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Androniki and prehistoric pottery: a look at non-binary gender expression in Cypriot culture
Support Politika News on Patreon. With special thanks to Ilaeira. ESSAY ‘It’s cultural’, people have often said to me. The tenacity of multiple systems of oppression – patriarchy, heteronormativity, racism – suggests they are and always have been endemic in Cypriot culture. As a member of the Cypriot diaspora, it has certainly felt that way.…
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Re-thinking July 1974: problematic discourse in Cyprus’ Greek-speaking diaspora
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this video contains discussion of trauma, displacement, and war VIDEO As Cypriot communities commemorate the events of July 1974 (as well as the decades prior) that led to Cyprus’ partition, Politika News Editor, Georgio Konstandi and From Root To Vine creator, Maria Christodoulou, sit down to discuss problematic discourses…
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Compellingly nuanced and a crucial contribution to its field: a review of ‘The Muslim Resolutions’
Support Politika News on Patreon. REVIEW The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak Responses to World War Two Atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Dr. Hikmet Karčić, Dr. Ferid Dautović, and Dr. Ermin Sinanović (Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, June 2021) The social and political position of the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) community in the Nazi-puppet state,…
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Remembering the genocide in Srebrenica: an interview with survivor, Almasa Salihović
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this interview contains discussion of genocide, war-related violence, threats, trauma, and grief VIDEO This week marks 26 years since genocide was perpetrated in Srebrenica, in July 1995. The genocide took place within the context of the Bosnian War, which lasted from 1992 to 1995. In Srebrenica, 8,372 Bosniaks (Bosnian…
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‘Migration should not be labelled a crisis’: SolidariTee founder talks to Politika News about the realities behind Lesvos
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of anti-refugee violence and xenophobia INTERVIEW Despite the decrease in the number of refugees arriving at Greek islands such as Lesvos, last year saw a rise in the number of recorded dead and missing refugees in the Aegean. Meanwhile, Greece faces another lawsuit in the…
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Monitoring human rights violations in the Aegean: an interview with Mare Liberum
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of anti-refugee violence and trauma INTERVIEW Evidence of human rights violations continue to mount against Greek and Turkish border forces, whilst both the EU’s Frontex border force and NATO are accused of facilitating or ignoring violence against refugees headed for Greece. As the presence of…
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£13,000 per refugee in TUI-Home Office deportation contract: an interview with SOAS Detainee Support
Support Politika News on Patreon PODCAST CN: this interview discusses deportation, the mistreatment of refugees, and trauma Last year, TUI Airways, the UK subsidiary of the German airline, TUI, became the UK’s top deportation profiteer after signing a deportation contract with the Home Office in November 2020. TUI executive chairman, Friedrich Joussen, earned €1.7 million…
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How Serb paramilitary violence was perpetrated in two Bosnian towns: an interview with Dr. Iva Vukušić
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of genocide, rape, torture and war INTERVIEW Dr. Iva Vukušić is a lecturer at the Department of History at Utrecht University and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research focuses on irregular armed forces, perpetrators and perpetration,…
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Surviving a pandemic from the margins of society: an interview with Opre Roma Srbija
Support Politika News on Patreon. INTERVIEW As the coronavirus pandemic rolls on, many are looking to vaccination as a pathway to the freedoms they have sacrificed. The Balkan region has been struck particularly hard, with death rates in Sarajevo, for example, exceeding those experienced during the city’s siege of 1992-96. Meanwhile, in Serbia a relatively…
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Beyond the glitz of the Oscars, the fight for Srebrenica’s truth continues: an interview with Dr. Hikmet Karčić
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of genocide INTERVIEW In light of the Oscar and BAFTA defeats of the nominated Bosnian film, ‘Quo Vadis Aida?’, Politika News sat down with genocide scholar, Dr. Hikmet Karčić, to discuss the bigger picture. What are the takeaways from the film’s successes and defeats? How…
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