EDITOR’S LETTER
HUSNA ARA for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org
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CRAVING CONNECTION
Joyce Carol Vincent. A woman whose name I ’ll never forget.
In 2006, the body of Joyce – a vivacious, young, talented aspiring singer from West London – was discovered in her flat three years after her death. The TV and heating were still running, Christmas presents laid unwrapped from 2003.
Joyce’s story left me with lingering questions. How – as a society – have we become so atomized that Joyce’s death could go unnoticed for so long? What do we need to stop this from happening? Can we be honest about the difficulties of communitybuilding, while still welcoming it in to our lives?
This edition of New Internationalist explores loneliness and social isolation – phenomena that go well beyond anomalous tragic cases, taking in the disappearance of public space and how algorithms are leading us further down consumerist, chauvinist rabbitholes, and away from intimate human connection.
But there is also hope. As labour reporter Eve Livingstone argues, loneliness can also be a catalyst for thinking through how we might once again reach each other (See page 21). From writings about cinema’s social impact to coaxing men out of patriarchal isolation, we hear about the myriad ways people are are restoring social connections.
Elsewhere in the magazine we’ve launched a new way to support New Internationalist and the next generation of readers. Hana Pera Aoake reports on how New Zealand/Aotearoa has become a ‘world-leader’ in returning Indigenous ancestors home and Lorraine Mallinder charts how rap has become the language of protest in Iran.
THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE:
Kabir Agarwal is an independent journalist originally from India who writes about food systems, business, and political economy. He writes the Unequal newsletter. To o b a S ye d is a writer and researcher working on gender, labour and ecology in Pakistan. She is currently working on her first book about the feminist movement in Pakistan. Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Ngaati Hinearangi, Tainui/Waikato) is an artist and writer from Aotearoa. They are the curator at the Sir James Fletcher Kawerau Mwuseum and a Mum. Ishika Saxena is an academic fellow at the National Law School of India University. Their research interests are in Political Thought, Critical Theory, Literature, Philosophy and Ethics.
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