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Ten Years on from the Downing of Flight MH17: Lessons Learnt from the Pursuit of Accountability under International Law
No full textIn this article, two former Australian government lawyers draw on their involvement in the response to the downing of flight MH17 on 17 July 2014 to identify lessons learnt for the investigation and prosecution of complex crimes involving multiple jurisdictions. It is argued that the extraordinary political will and international cooperation that characterised the pursuit of accountability for crimes connected with the downing of MH17 engendered a range of creative solutions that could usefully be applied to the investigation and prosecution of serious international crimes (securing United Nations Security Council (UNSC) support, the establishment of an integrated joint investigation team employing operational best practices, and the utilisation of a transfer of proceedings). At the same time, it is argued that the proposed establishment of an international tribunal by the UNSC to prosecute crimes connected to the downing was unwarranted, and a number of concerns are raised with the prosecutions that ultimately took place before the District Court of The Hague. These lessons lead the authors to the conclusion that the pursuit of accountability for the downing of MH17 reflects double standards, with attendant repercussions for the reputations of the Netherlands and Australia in particular, such that the response can be seen as one example of conduct that has cumulatively resulted in the narrative about Western double standards that is currently so pervasive in the international system.
Abstracts of the International Science of Aphasia Conference, Copenhagen, September 2025
No full textAbstracts of the International Science of Aphasia Conference, Copenhagen, September 202
From chaos to conviction: Competitive social worldview mediates the associations between childhood unpredictability and ideological attitudes
No full textAcross four online self-report studies with college students and community members (N = 597; N = 273; N = 1,100; N = 882), we examined whether perceived childhood harshness and unpredictability were associated with ideological attitudes through dangerous and competitive social worldviews. Perceived childhood unpredictability consistently predicted a competitive social worldview, which, in turn, mediated its associations with social dominance orientation, anti-hierarchical aggression, equalitarianism, and the need for chaos. These findings suggest that perceiving one’s early environment as unpredictable may foster a competitive view of the world, which can lead to ideological attitudes that either uphold (e.g., social dominance orientation) or disrupt (e.g., need for chaos) social hierarchies. In contrast, perceived childhood harshness was not reliably linked to the dangerous worldview or to ideological attitudes via this pathway. This research contributes to the limited literature on how early life experiences shape ideological beliefs, highlighting the role of competitive social worldviews as a key mediator of the effects of childhood unpredictability
Calamidades del Retorno: las transmisiones intergeneracionales del exilio en familias retornadas
No full textEsta contribución aborda las transmisiones intergeneracionales del exilio y el retorno en familias uruguayas que huyeron de la persecución política durante la dictadura de los años setenta y ochenta y que regresaron entre 1985 y 1989. A partir de historias orales y métodos etnográficos, se explora cómo madres, padres e hij@s —muchos nacidos o criados en el exterior— construyeron, heredaron y cuestionaron memorias de desplazamiento, pérdida y lucha política.
Si bien el retorno fue celebrado en el discurso oficial como un “reencuentro” nacional, la investigación muestra que estas familias se enfrentaron a una falta de apoyo estatal sostenido, la invisibilización social y una cultura de no-reconocimiento que frecuentemente borró tanto sus aportes a la resistencia durante la dictadura como las profundas rupturas que provocó el exilio. Los progenitores transmitieron una fuerte ‘contra-nostalgia’ y un imperativo moral de regresar, que influyó en la formación identitaria y expectativas de sus hij@s, generando tensiones entre la imagen idealizada del país y las complejas, a veces decepcionantes, realidades del retorno.
El trabajo muestra cómo estas memorias se encarnaron y resignificaron a través de dinámicas familiares, activismo y producción cultural —de cartas y archivos a creaciones contemporáneas—, y revelan, cuatro décadas después de la transición democrática, la persistencia de traumas, redes de solidaridad y formas de “contra-nostalgia” en generaciones migrantes post-exilio. Estas experiencias ofrecen claves para comprender los vínculos entre memoria, pertenencia y reconocimiento en sociedades marcadas por pasados autoritarios.
This contribution examines the intergenerational transmissions of exile and return among Uruguayan families who fled political persecution during the 1970s–1980s dictatorship and returned between 1985–1989. Drawing on oral histories and ethnographic narratives, it explores how exiled parents and their children—many born or raised abroad—constructed, inherited, and contested memories of displacement, loss, and political struggle. Despite the rhetoric of national “reencounter,” el retorno, ethnographic work documents that returning families faced an absence of sustained state support, social invisibilization, and a culture of non-recognition that often erased their contributions to resistance and the profound disruptions exile caused. Parents transmitted a powerful nostalgia and moral imperative to return, which shaped their children’s identities and expectations—often creating tension between an idealized homeland and the complex, disillusioning reality upon return. The findings highlight how memories of exile became embodied, enacted, and later re-signified through family dynamics, political activism, and cultural production, from letters and archives to contemporary creative works. Four decades after the transition to democracy, these experiences reveal enduring legacies of trauma, solidarity, and “counter-nostalgia” within migrant and post-exile generations to this day, offering critical insights for understanding memory, belonging, and the unfinished work of recognition in societies marked by authoritarian pasts
Integral Ecology in Brazil: The Prophetic Case of the 2025 Fraternity Campaign Ahead of COP30
No full textThis article adopts an empirical and first-person narrative approach to theological thought on integral ecology based on bibliographical research and lived experience. Using as a case study the 2025 Fraternity Campaign promoted by the National Conference of Bishops, I provide contextual background for people outside Brazil to understand the history and theology behind the campaign, what the campaign is, and how it was possible for its theme to be on integral ecology. Through the grassroots voices of religious leaders from different parts of the Amazon region in Brazil, I present some of the advances and limitations of the campaign and how it summons the local Church to better address climate and socioenvironmental justice. As a result, I aim to present the complex reality of the prophetic social dimension of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil, the dangers it entails, and how to sustain hope and action ahead and beyond COP30
Between Revolutions, Oppressions, Exiles, and Returns: Rethinking Portuguese Independent Theatre and Its Transnational Networks
No full textPortuguese independent theatre emerged in the late 1960s, gaining significant creative momentum and active engagement in social and political struggles following the Portuguese Revolution of April 1974. This article examines how the emergence of this theatre was profoundly shaped by international experiences. These transnational connections, which began to take shape in the later years of the Estado Novo regime through exiles, the influence of Latin American directors, ties with former colonies, and the cautious openings allowed by institutions such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Goethe-Institut, disrupted the regime’s isolationist policies. Revisiting this history offers valuable insights in the contemporary era, marked by the resurgence of neo-nationalisms, underscoring the enduring importance of cross-border exchanges and collective cultural resistance
The Parable of the Hero-Refugee and the Narrative of the Deserving Migrant on the Italian Stage
No full textOver the last two decades, on the Italian scene, the representation of migration has often drawn upon classical myths, particularly that of Aeneas. Productions portray migrants as heroic figures (males) undertaking perilous sea voyages to reach a welcoming land where their worth is eventually recognised. By drawing parallels between Aeneas’s epic exile and contemporary refugees, these creations aim to foster empathy and counteract xenophobic sentiments. However, this mythological framing reveals controversial and problematic aspects that ultimately confirm and reinforce the nationalist and exclusionary ideologies they attempt to combat. The mythologisation of the migrant reproduces a paradigm of ‘exception’ that perpetuates narratives of conditional acceptance, far more akin to the contested notion of ‘deserving migrant’ than to a transformative critique of exclusionary policies. The article critically analyses these theatrical tropes, tracing their links to the enduring fascist and nationalist mythopoesis, to post-colonial Eurocentric narratives, and to the contemporary debate on the ‘deserving migrant’. By highlighting the complex dynamics underlying these representations, the analysis contributes to understanding how theatrical productions can unintentionally reproduce or reinforce certain imaginaries, vocabulary, and stereotypes that are functional to nationalist rhetoric
La sociologie de la mise en scène: Le cas D’Ubu aux Bouffes de Peter Brook
No full textThis is a reprit of Shevtsova, Maria. 1988. \u27La Sociologie de la mise en scene: le cas d\u27Ubu aux Bouffes de Peter Brook’, Recherches sociologiques, XX. 2–3: 195–220
Anne Etienne and Chris Megson (eds.). 2024. Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest (Exeter: University of Exeter Press)
No full textReview of Anna Etienne and Chris Megson (eds.). 2024. Theatre Censorship in Contemporary Europe: Silence and Protest (Exeter: University of Exeter Press)
