GENERAL ELECTION: A JEWISH LEFTIST’S THOUGHTS

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged anti-semitism, austerity, bigotry, Britain, corbyn, discrimination, election, featured, ge2019, general election, hope, Jewish, Johnson, Labour, leftism, manifesto, perspective, racism, uk, vote.

by Tamar Moshkovitz

This was originally posted as a personal reflection, but the editorial team approached me after reading, and we thought it might find a different, perhaps wider audience on The Norwich Radical.

I’ve been finding it harder and harder to stay silent on the lead up to this general election. Not only because I feel that it’ll be a major defining moment in the history of the UK – which it will; for anyone who’s not registered to vote yet, please do so here – but because every time I think about saying what I think I get hopelessly tangled up in the mess of being both Jewish and a leftist.Continue Reading

I AM LUCKY

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alien, belonging, children, choice, economy, familiarity, featured, home, journey, migration, personal, perspective, privilege, risk, Scotland, travel, Uganda.

by Stu Lucy

This week I’d like to offer something a little different. Rather than an article gunning for the Western neoliberal establishment and its detrimental effects on a particular aspect of African society, I would like to take a more pensive stance on an issue that many of us, to me at least, seem to have assimilated and normalised into our daily lives. I hope this article provokes a thought towards those in ever more increasing numbers that lose their lives in a desperate attempt to achieve something more than the lot they’ve been given.Continue Reading

REVIEW: BRIDGES @ SPACE STUDIOS NORWICH

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged allery space, art, arts review, audiovisual media, Bridges, colonialism, colonisation, cultural interaction, culture, curation, dialogue, discussion, displacement, history, humanitarian issues, ignorance, informal, installation, Karis Upton, Marcia X, migration, morality, norwich, painting, personal is political, perspective, political art, politics, privilege, refuge, refugee crisis, refugees, review, Rosie Smith, social theory, Space Studios, studio space, The Barber Shop.

by Laura Potts

‘If anything, art is…about morals, about our belief in humanity.
Without that, there simply is no art’
Ai Weiwei

Norwich’s own Space Studios hosted Bridges, a fascinating exhibition by artists Marcia X and Karis Upton, earlier this month. Entering through a small alley, I climb stairs up to the first few works, which I find in a dark setting, immersing me in the exhibition. Up another staircase, long enough for me to begin reflecting on what I’ve seen, is a much lighter space, with works hung from the sloped ceiling. Afterward, I’ll go on reflecting for some time – the themes and issues that Bridges explores are of such magnitude that every viewer is forced to sit up and listen.

THE DEPTHS OF COMMUNICATION – NUA DEGREE SHOW 2017

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Student and tagged Alice Leon, artistic media, arts, arts education, capitalism, Carl Rowe, communication, craft, deconstruction, degree, degree show, exhibition, fine art, future, history, human condition, John Berger, language, literature, meaning, non-verbal communication, Norwich University of the Arts, NUA, past, perspective, society, students, text, textiles, Tina Hannay, translation, writing.

by Laura Potts

This year’s degree show was of striking magnitude. The work in all departments was of a very professional standard, with the textiles department in particular showing great craft and display skills with their breathtaking exhibition. These high standards were maintained throughout, even into the degree show shop, which housed snippets of work for sale.

PERSPECTIVE

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged apathy, cognitive development, communication, Community, couple, creative criticism, egoism, elections, empathy, GE2017, mental health, people, perspective, Piaget, politics, pov, technology, writing.

by Alice Thomson

CW: abuse

Point of view is surprisingly important. As a child, I was always being told by my mother to ‘put my feet in another’s shoes’. It’s surprisingly difficult for children to actually do this.

According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, children between the age of 2 and 7 are in the preoperational stage. During this stage, children are egotistical in the purest sense. They display Centration and Egocentrism which means the child has a tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation at one time and they have an inability to see a situation from another’s point of view.Continue Reading

THE VOICE YOU DIDN’T HEAR – A BRITISH-IRAQI WOMAN ON PARIS

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #ParisAttacks, account, daesh, iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, paris, perspective, politics, terrorism, terrorist, world.

By Dahlia Al-Abdullah

The events that unfolded in Paris have been devastating, as have the other numerous attacks of terrorism that we have seen ripple out across the globe over the last few days, months, and years. To acknowledge the other mass killings in Lebanon, Iraq, Kenya etc. is not a way of trying to play down this act of terrorism. Terrorism exists. Terrorism is absolutely disgusting. What happened in Paris is enough to instil enough fear in me to want to stay away from any big cities for a while.Continue Reading

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GENERAL ELECTION: A JEWISH LEFTIST’S THOUGHTS

I AM LUCKY

THE DEPTHS OF COMMUNICATION – NUA DEGREE SHOW 2017

PERSPECTIVE

THE VOICE YOU DIDN’T HEAR – A BRITISH-IRAQI WOMAN ON PARIS

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