In “New model island”, Alex Niven is looking for England and he can’t find it. The country existed as a nation state between the tenth and seventeenth centuries but he asks whether the idea of England today has any usefulness as a cultural cause. Sean Sheehan In the […]
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Trauma and redemption
The first thing that strikes even the most casual visitor (to Antigua) who has any awareness, is the huge disparity between the nouveau riches with their ostentatious and garish houses, surrounded by security measures, and the shacks (often colourfully decorated) of the poor, much like beach huts in the United […]
Tools of salvation: instruments of surveillance
Computer surveillance may hold the key to halting the spread of Coronavirus. For example, despite our own government’s abject failure, track-and-trace has been successful in many countries. Steve Latham However, following the law of unintended consequences, the use of technology to defeat Covid also demonstrates how the pandemic […]
Neoliberal fallacies wiped out by the pandemic
Many paradigms have collapsed in the midst of this global crisis that, if it carries on too long, will end other schemes pre-designed to make us believe that we live in a glass bubble, which is now beginning to fall apart. Yadira Cruz Valera If anything impacted the […]
The disappearing world of the Penans
A brief encounter with a Penan is burned into my memory. I was following a pathway, a mere stroll before darkness fell in the Kelabit Highlands in Sarawak where I was on a two-day trek. Sean Sheehan He stepped out of the trees on one side, about to […]















