Isles of the Left

Not Returning to Normality: Transport in a Post-pandemic Future

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Let us not forget the lessons we’ve learned during the quarantine and the better air quality we enjoyed during those few months. We all should be more willing to embrace a new model of transport.

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Why We Need a Decolonial Ecology

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We need to link the exploitation of bodies to that of lands. If we start from the principle that there are continuities between bodies and ecosystems, we realise that to harm one is to harm the other. This prism helps us to understand anti-slavery revolts also as resistance to this colonial habitation.

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What Post-Pandemic Normality Means to the Streets of Valletta

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During the pandemic, we have been forced to prioritise our private domestic spaces. Will the ‘new normality’ bring the return of the old normal: the prioritisation of commercial private spaces over common spaces and interests?

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Construction and Hunting: Malta, between ‘Progress’ and ‘Tradition’

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The dusk of ‘traditional’ hunting in MaIta is near, but the coalition of NGOs is not the one that will put an end to it. [Read more…] about Construction and Hunting: Malta, between ‘Progress’ and ‘Tradition’

Highly Contagious: Pandemic and ‘Pan-Panic’

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Why do COVID-19 updates skew so much towards death and not recovery? We need to be particularly cautious in letting numbers of death records beat us into fear. Or do we assume that people will not act responsibly unless they are shocked into a panic?

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