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Liliana Mason

From Berlin to Baghdad: Hollywood and the American war machine

Liliana Mason Apr 10, 2024

The average American sees movies as a form of escapism, providing a departure from daily life–not an avenue for state narrative pushing. Thus, they tend to miss the more subtle messaging.
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“Sometimes I Think the Whole World’s Gone Crazy”: The Hyper-Scrutinization of Grime Music

Liliana Mason Dec 1, 2023

Grime is a grassroots genre that many understand to be a form of English folk music, expressing the identity and shared experience of Black Britons.
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Building BRICS in the Arctic

Liliana Mason Nov 6, 2023

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, the imposition of sanctions by Western states has forced Russia to begin looking outside the Council for future Arctic endeavours.
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