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Contributor(s): | Dr Nick Anstead of the Department of Media and Communications at LSE explains today's new information environment, its impact in politics in the UK and elsewhere, and how we can regulate it.

Explore our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and commentary on global politics in a year of elections: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Research/global-politics This #LSEFestival event will discuss the importance of trust for a functioning society here.

Contributor(s): | In the recent years, more and more right-wing parties have appeared in politics in European countries and across the world. Ahead of the European Parliament elections 6-9 June 2024, Prof Stephanie Rickard explains why this is happening and what the consequences could be for the EU and globally if we see more far-right candidates winning seats. 

Explore our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and commentary on global politics in a year of elections here.

Contributor(s): | Mexico will likely elect its first female president on 2 June in an election where a lot is at stake. Dr Jenny Pearce explains the current state of politics in the country and the possible policy areas that Claudia Sheinbaum will tackle if she wins. 

Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | South Africa’s national election on 29 May is likely to be the most competitive one since the end of apartheid. One of the critical issues in the election is the Political Party Funding Act that came into force in 2021 and transformed the country’s political finance landscape.

Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | The polls in India are estimated to have 969 million voters, 5.5 million electronic voting machines, 15 million polling officials. Dr Mukulika Banerjee analyses elections in India, the largest human organised event anywhere in the world. 

Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | Once considered a policy success case for promoting food security, Brazil has now returned to the UN Hunger Map. In 2022, more than half of Brazil’s population was experiencing some degree of food insecurity and severe food insecurity impacted more than 33 million urban residents. In highly unequal Brazilian cities, this issue affects mostly low-income racialised residents in the urban fringes where infrastructural exclusion further constrains access to nutritious, affordable and culturally appropriate food. This short film introduces the interdisciplinary research project “Engineering food: infrastructure exclusion and ‘last mile’ delivery in Brazilian favelas”, a collaboration between LSE, Insper and Birkbeck, funded by the British Academy, that explores the last mile gaps in food accessibility in Brazilian low-income neighbourhoods. Featuring interviews with the research team and community leaders in Brazil, the film focuses on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and initiatives emerging to address hunger. It stresses the role of women and community organisations in closing the last mile gap and invites further attention and investment in local actors to tackle inequalities in food access.

Contributor(s): | Are there elections taking place in wartime? Mariia Zolkina, DINAM Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations, explains the cases of Ukraine and Russia. Visit our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and expertise on global politics through short films, blogs, articles and events here.

Contributor(s): | Revolutionary Papers is an international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anticolonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. It includes over forty university-based researchers, as well as editors, archivists, and movement organizers from around the world. The initiative looks at the way that periodicals—including newspapers, magazines, cultural journals, and newsletters—played a key role in establishing new counter publics, social and cultural movements, institutions, political vocabularies and art practises. Operating as forums for critique and debate under conditions of intense repression, periodicals facilitated processes of decolonization during colonialism and after the formal end of empire, into the neo-colonial era. Revolutionary Papers traces the ways that periodicals supported social, political and cultural reconstruction amidst colonial destruction, building alternative networks that circulated new political ideas and dared to imagine worlds after empire.

Find out more: https://revolutionarypapers.org/

Contributor(s): | With a population of 275 million, Indonesia is the world's third largest democracy and what happens in its 2024 election is really important. Prof John Sidel, Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE, explains Indonesia's trajectory as a stable and consolidated democracy over the last 25 years and what the future likely holds.

Explore our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and commentary on global politics in a year of elections: https://www.lse.ac.uk/Research/global-politics

Contributor(s): | Colonialism has not disappeared – it has taken on a new form. In the new world order, data is the new oil. Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources – our data – exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us.

In 'Data Grab: The new colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back', Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias, founders of the concept of data colonialism, reveal how history can help us both to understand the emerging future and to fight back.

Find out more about the book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455862/data-grab-by-couldry-ulises-a-mejias-and-nick/9780753560204

Prof Nick Couldry is a Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE: https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/nick-couldry

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