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Gone but not forgotten: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s funeral, 2008. EPA/Yuri Kochetkov

May 3, 2017

What eastern bloc dissidents can teach us about ‘living in truth’

Philip Boobbyer, University of Kent

As Solzhenitsyn saw it, simple truths are always a threat to totalitarianism.

Following the failed coup in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the sacking of nearly 1,600 deans, 21,000 teachers and 15,000 education bureaucrats. Tolga Bozoglu/EPA

July 26, 2016

Turkey coup: why have teachers and academics been targeted?

David Tittensor, Deakin University

The sacking of Turkish education staff speaks to a broader agenda of control through removing educated dissident voices.

Birds flock around a statue of Boer War leader Paul Kruger at Pretoria’s Church Square. Reuters/Mike Hutchings

March 15, 2016

How Afrikaner identity can be re-imagined in a post-apartheid world

Christi van der Westhuizen, University of Pretoria

How do Afrikaners find a place in post-apartheid South Africa? A look back at the dissidents who took on the apartheid state over decades offers some examples.

Top contributors

David Tittensor
Lecturer in Studies of Religion, Deakin University
Christi van der Westhuizen
Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Pretoria
Philip Boobbyer
Reader in History, University of Kent