Diversity
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15th December 2023
Grotesque Women in the Media
The media exert a significant influence on body images. They confirm cultural ideals of beauty, disseminate idealised images and influence social norms and values. This article will focus on how the grotesque, repulsive, obscene body, of all things, can contribute to breaking down such powerful representational conventions and questioning normative ideas of femininity.
25th April 2022
Racial violence of climate change
In popular discourse, climate change is usually framed as an ‘environmental issue’ – a matter of ‘saving the planet’ or caring for nature. It is also about people, about justice, and about power. And when we pause to look at who is most affected, there is a clear racial dimension. Climate change can be understood as violence against people of colour, and seeing it in that way gives a new urgency to climate action.
1st February 2022
Videoconferencing as a structural disadvantage
Video conferencing is shaping a large part of our working world and many positive developments are associated with the digital transformation it brings. However, numerous video conferences during the work week are more tiring for some employees than for others. The gender, age (...)
All articles of this category
Release Date | Authors | Article |
15.12.2023 | Theresa Krampe | Grotesque Women in the Media |
25.04.2022 | Jeremy Williams | Understanding the racial violence of climate change |
01.02.2022 | Jenny Dietrich | Videokonferenzen als strukturelle Benachteiligung |
29.03.2021 | Regina Ammicht Quinn | Trümmerfrauen: Ein Nachtrag zum Weltfrauentag |
07.05.2020 | Wulf Loh, Laura Schelenz | How the triage rules compound historical injustices against Black communities in the USA |
05.05.2020 | Solange Martínez Demarco | Caring for others – looking to the Global South |
2020 | Sandra Dürr, Sheena Anderson | Rassismus geht uns alle etwas an. Anti-Rassismus auch |