Columba Achilleos
@columbaachilleos.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) @BhamPolsis | Researching WPS, NGOs, gender, race, (in)security, FFP & visual global politics | Feminist Killjoy | Anti-war | She/her | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gov/achilleos-saril-columba.aspx
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Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉
‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍
Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍
Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre
The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉
‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍
Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍
Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
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In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now!
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January 27, 2026 at 9:04 AM
In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now!
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Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR
Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR
Interview - Shirin M. Rai
Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape inequality and everyday life.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR
Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR
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We are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
@fotwl.bsky.social
@fotwl.bsky.social
The Women's Library at 100 | LSE Library
Find out about the various activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.
www.lse.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
We are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
@fotwl.bsky.social
@fotwl.bsky.social
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BISA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 🎉
Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟
Get nominating today! 👉 https://ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X
Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup
Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟
Get nominating today! 👉 https://ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X
Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup
January 14, 2026 at 9:00 AM
BISA Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize 🎉
Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟
Get nominating today! 👉 https://ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X
Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup
Recognising an individual or group that has made significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline through in relation to a range of areas 🌟
Get nominating today! 👉 https://ow.ly/mbME50XWw6X
Jessica Northey prof toni haastrup
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Fourteen interventions on twenty-five years of Women, Peace and Security. Open access, free to read.
“If an anniversary signals a return, a cycle of remembrance, then for WPS that ritual is in disarray… We may wonder: what sort of party does WPS deserve?”
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“If an anniversary signals a return, a cycle of remembrance, then for WPS that ritual is in disarray… We may wonder: what sort of party does WPS deserve?”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Fourteen interventions on twenty-five years of Women, Peace and Security. Open access, free to read.
“If an anniversary signals a return, a cycle of remembrance, then for WPS that ritual is in disarray… We may wonder: what sort of party does WPS deserve?”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“If an anniversary signals a return, a cycle of remembrance, then for WPS that ritual is in disarray… We may wonder: what sort of party does WPS deserve?”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Women, Peace and Security UK Research Network is organising its first workshop. We invite submissions from researchers of all career stages and of any institutional affiliation (or none) based in the UK.
Workshop: 19 May
Deadline for abstracts: 2 March
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Workshop: 19 May
Deadline for abstracts: 2 March
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Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK
Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Research Network, a community of researchers …
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January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The Women, Peace and Security UK Research Network is organising its first workshop. We invite submissions from researchers of all career stages and of any institutional affiliation (or none) based in the UK.
Workshop: 19 May
Deadline for abstracts: 2 March
thedisorderofthings.com/2026/01/30/c...
Workshop: 19 May
Deadline for abstracts: 2 March
thedisorderofthings.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Aston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟
Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉
👉 More info on sheet attached below!
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉
👉 More info on sheet attached below!
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
January 14, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Aston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟
Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉
👉 More info on sheet attached below!
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉
👉 More info on sheet attached below!
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
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New paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...
Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Eliminationist News Cycle in Liberal Democracies
Abstract∞. How can an ostensibly free and open media actively facilitate systematic violence against minoritized groups? Studying anti-trans and anti-migra
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January 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
New paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...
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Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
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Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Columba and I contributed a short section on abolition feminism and WPS to this @ifjpglobal.bsky.social Conversations piece. Looking forward to reading what all the other awesome contributors have to say about this moment in the history of feminist peace organising.
Just in time for the holidays, check out our Conversations piece @paulcinnamon.bsky.social “Unhappy Birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
Unhappy birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Columba and I contributed a short section on abolition feminism and WPS to this @ifjpglobal.bsky.social Conversations piece. Looking forward to reading what all the other awesome contributors have to say about this moment in the history of feminist peace organising.
Just in time for the holidays, check out our Conversations piece @paulcinnamon.bsky.social “Unhappy Birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
Unhappy birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just in time for the holidays, check out our Conversations piece @paulcinnamon.bsky.social “Unhappy Birthday! Women, Peace and Security at 25” 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
✨⭐ Featuring a stellar line up of WPS scholars & practitioners👇👇👇
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🚨Exciting news! Today is pub day for my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. 🚨
You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc
You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
🚨Exciting news! Today is pub day for my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. 🚨
You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc
You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc
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📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice.
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In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice.
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In the editorial "The Where, What, and Who of Feminist Foreign Policy", @columbaachilleos.bsky.social, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social, and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social offer a roadmap to FFP scholarship and practice.
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Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325.
All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.
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Gendersky Polisky
All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.
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Gendersky Polisky
Latest issue | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Politics & Gender
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November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325.
All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gendersky Polisky
All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gendersky Polisky
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Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access!
@tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
@tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
Excited to share the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social featuring research on WPS, gender and diplomacy, feminist foreign policy, and UNSCR 1325.
All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gendersky Polisky
All articles are currently ungated for readers around the world.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Gendersky Polisky
Latest issue | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Politics & Gender
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Our special section on #feministforeignpolicy in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social is currently free to access!
@tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
@tonihaastrup.bsky.social @columbaachilleos.bsky.social
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Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
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With @drljshepherd.bsky.social, revisiting our plea to 'forget' Women, Peace and Security in light of the governments currently trying to make it disappear.
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Forgetting WPS: On Being Careful What You Wish For - IPI Global Observatory
We concluded our recent book, Governing the Feminist Peace, with an exhortation to “forget WPS”—to abandon attempts to force coherence onto an agenda that had become so sprawling and intricate over it...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
With @drljshepherd.bsky.social, revisiting our plea to 'forget' Women, Peace and Security in light of the governments currently trying to make it disappear.
theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/forg...
theglobalobservatory.org/2025/10/forg...
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Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
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I'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social
Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
A conversation with Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Martin Alcoff
Monday, December 8, 2025
6:30pm ET online
bit.ly/insurgent_vi...
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm super-excited about this conversation between these feminist activists, theorists, and friends, coming up at @intellpublics.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on December 8. Online. Registration link below! @dukepress.bsky.social
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Nice to see this piece has an issue number now, just as we pass the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325. @columbaachilleos.bsky.social and I also have a short follow up conversations piece coming shortly...
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Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Towards an abolitionist feminist peace: State violence, anti-militarism, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda - Volume 51 Issue 5
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November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Nice to see this piece has an issue number now, just as we pass the 25th anniversary of UNSCR 1325. @columbaachilleos.bsky.social and I also have a short follow up conversations piece coming shortly...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda: new Review of International Studies edition by Katrina Lee Koo 🎉
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda: new Review of International Studies edition by Katrina Lee Koo 🎉
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
All articles free to read until end of Jan!
Inc: Maria Martin de Almagro, Sara E Davies, Hannah Wright, Alexandra Phelan & more! 🌟
Read here 👉 https://ow.ly/rqR450XhsZt
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25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo.
Browse here - https://cup.org/4oAmXZq
cc @mybisa.bsky.social
Browse here - https://cup.org/4oAmXZq
cc @mybisa.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo.
Browse here - https://cup.org/4oAmXZq
cc @mybisa.bsky.social
Browse here - https://cup.org/4oAmXZq
cc @mybisa.bsky.social
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Pleased to see mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social 's article, 'Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Peace: State Violence, Anti-Militarism and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda' in this new collection:
25 years of the United Nations Women, Peace and Security agenda - a new collection from @risjnl.bsky.social complied by Katrina Lee Koo.
Browse here - https://cup.org/4oAmXZq
cc @mybisa.bsky.social
Browse here - https://cup.org/4oAmXZq
cc @mybisa.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Pleased to see mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social 's article, 'Towards an Abolitionist Feminist Peace: State Violence, Anti-Militarism and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda' in this new collection:
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If the aid sector is truly committed to the idea of doing no harm then it should not be using generative AI.
Full-stop.
But instead we see how once again the sector is a useful playground for capitalist experimentation and expansion.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Full-stop.
But instead we see how once again the sector is a useful playground for capitalist experimentation and expansion.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If the aid sector is truly committed to the idea of doing no harm then it should not be using generative AI.
Full-stop.
But instead we see how once again the sector is a useful playground for capitalist experimentation and expansion.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Full-stop.
But instead we see how once again the sector is a useful playground for capitalist experimentation and expansion.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...