Welcome to The Global Dispatches,
This month David Elstein, director of three episodes of the seminal "The World At War" series, finds "Dunkirk" to be a powerful film but one shorn of historical context. Here he fills in the vital gaps - and finds some curious anomalies; Andries du Toit, the Director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape asks if we are standing on the brink of a new kind of nihilistic governmentality, where politics is turned into perpetual theatre, disconnected from any kind of coherent government programming; Juliano Fiori the Anglo-Brazilian writer, Head of Studies (Humanitarian Affairs) at Save the Children finds that as Brazilian politics increasingly escape rational explanation, both the left and and the right get lost in the labyrinth of history; Hiromi Hara – Associate Professor of Economics, Japan Women’s University examines the gender wage gap in Japan that despite decreasing over the last 15 years, remains large. Both the ‘glass ceiling’ and the ‘sticky floor’ exist in the Japanese labour market... and much more...
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