Category: The Conversation
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Putin, Zelensky and the art of ‘playing’ the US president
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump at the White House. Press service of the president of Ukraine This newsletter was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of…
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Voices from the sea, part two: using maps and drawings, survivors share the dangers they faced on their journeys to reach the ship
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Morgane Dujmovic, Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) This series of articles draws on a year of research conducted on board the Ocean Viking, the civilian search-and-rescue ship operated in the central Mediterranean…
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Voices from the sea, part one: people rescued in the Mediterranean tell their stories of survival in ‘onboard workshops’
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Morgane Dujmovic, Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) This series of articles draws on a year of research conducted on board the Ocean Viking, the civilian search-and-rescue ship operated in the central Mediterranean…
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Voices from the sea, part four: when dreams reach land, what’s next?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Morgane Dujmovic, Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) As the Ocean Viking approaches the Italian coast, the prospect of a new life in Europe becomes more concrete. Morgane Dujmovic, Fourni par l’auteur This is…
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Why does putting back the clocks an hour disrupt us so much?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Groeger, Professor of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University It’s not just you – the autumn clock change really does feel that bad. Cast Of Thousands/Shutterstock The disruption of sleeping and waking patterns from the daylight saving clock change reveals a great deal…
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A history of the dukes of York
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark McKinty, Early Career Researcher in Spanish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast From New York City to Duke of York Island in Antarctica, the Dukedom of York has a wider cultural resonance than you might immediately realise. The Duke of York military slow march can often be…
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Thai villagers have moved four times to escape rising sea levels – life on the climate-change frontline
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Danny Marks, Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy and Politics, Dublin City University Danny Marks and a researcher walking along a small wooden pathway to the village. Danny Marks The village of Khun Samut Chin, 50km southwest of Bangkok, Thailand, is a small, rustic fishing village similar…
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England’s new phonics target sets schools an almost impossible task
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alice Bradbury, Professor of Sociology of Education, UCL SpeedKingz/Shutterstock The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can “decode” words – has been raised to 90%. This increase, from…
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Voices from the sea, part two: using maps and sketches, survivors are able to reveal the dangers they have faced
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Morgane Dujmovic, Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) This series of articles draws on a year of research conducted on board the Ocean Viking, the civilian search-and-rescue ship operated in the central Mediterranean…
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Voices from the sea, part one: survivors in the Mediterranean relive their journeys while still on board the rescue ship
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Morgane Dujmovic, Chargée de recherche CNRS, Géographe et politiste spécialiste des frontières et migrations, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) This series of articles draws on a year of research conducted on board the Ocean Viking, the civilian search-and-rescue ship operated in the central Mediterranean…
