Cultureteca 28.02.16
Russian Ice Swimmers Play Chess in a Near-Freezing Urals Lake In Lake Shartash near the city of Yekaterinburg – the administrative centre of the Urals region which straddles Europe and Asia –...
Cultureteca 15.11.15
This week on Cultureteca, a brief political history as Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy win a momentous general election in Myanmar; recent releases in Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 1...
Daily Visual 01.11.15: AKP Regain Majority in Turkey
The second Turkish general election of 2015 took place on Sunday, and saw the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) regain the parliamentary majority which they lost in June. Then, 40.9%...
Daily Visual 19.10.15: Liberals Surge to Victory in Canada
The 2015 Canadian federal election (Canada’s 42nd General Election) took place on Monday, to elect members to the House of Commons of the 42nd Canadian Parliament. Emerging from the election with 184...
Daily Visual 08.06.15: Turkey’s Election Results
The Turkish general election of 2015 took place yesterday. In what many outside Turkey have viewed as a surprising result, the ruling Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) took only...
UK General Election 2015: Roundup and Analysis
The United Kingdom general election of 2015, held last Thursday, 7 May, saw David Cameron and the Conservative Party elected to form a majority government. Winning 331 seats in the House of...
Thoughts Upon UK General Election Day 2015
With the last general election in 2010 fought in the midst of the financial crisis, after five years of ideologically-driven austerity the UK general election of 2015 ought to have focused first and foremost...
The Open Letter and the UK General Election
The open letter is hardly an innovation as a means to publicise a message. The art of the epistle – letters bound by formal gestures, often written for some didactic purpose, and...
PR, Negative Parliamentarism, and Sweden’s Budget Vote
On 3 December, Sweden’s Riksdag effectively rejected the budget proposed by Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s government. In response, Löfven announced that he would call a snap election, which is scheduled to take place on...