Hannah Cassar

The formalisation of human rights occurred during a tumultuous period in the history of what can be categorised as ‘the West’.

The concept of intersectionality increases the visibility of the inequalities and type of discrimination a certain group may face due to the varying characteristics and labels which dictate their lives (Slip, 2018).

The social dimension of ‘natural disasters’ reveals that for a hazard to become a crisis that evolves into a disaster, a series of events must ensue to orchestrate the devastating outcome.

Whilst wars may seemingly be fought to amass economic and political assets,  they may actually be driven by other factors, particularly identity politics which dominate a big platform of the global conversation nowadays.

Our realities are constructed through the retelling of events, where particular elements of an experience may be highlighted and others may be discarded – narratives and their framing shape the world we live in.

The disasters which follow seismic events, as seen in the context of Haiti and Chile, are not natural; rather they are produced by a human action which acts upon another human action resulting in the catastrophic effects on those who have been made vulnerable.

Marx’s theory of alienation is the most prominent idea in his early writings, where he discussed the four ways in which alienation is experienced by the wage labourer.

In late 2022, the government of Malta’s launched a website dedicated to the project, https://project.green/, which until the date of submission of this essay remains largely bare and void of a concrete 7 year plan – leaving much to be desired in the construction of a ‘planned process of social change’.