The Gray Zone
Irregular migration has been one of the most popular topics of the political debates in Europe for already a few years. Issues of border…
Read MoreIrregular migration has been one of the most popular topics of the political debates in Europe for already a few years. Issues of border…
Read MoreMany academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists, virologists, microbiologists, weighing in…
Read MoreAndersson’s new opus is a haunting and insightful examination of those remote zones of danger and insecurity that are distant yet at the centre…
Read MoreThe Omani government has silenced requests to reveal the location of the graves of executed insurgents from the Dhufar war 1965-1975. Thwarted claims-making under…
Read MoreIn this post, I outline first findings from my ongoing research project on “Accountability in statelessness.” The project is based on observations from ethnographic…
Read MoreThis thematic thread evolved out of a workshop on Claiming justice after conflict. The stateless, the displaced and the disappeared at the margins…
Read MoreThe year is nearing it’s end, so now is as good a time as ever to start thinking about what to do in 2019….
Read MoreThree years after Europe declared a ‘crisis’ of migration control, its border and migration regimes have become increasingly repressive. A growing body of critical…
Read MoreIn September and again in November 2015 the famous German car company, Volkswagen AG at its headquarter in Virginia, received two violation notices from…
Read MoreThe surest signal that we are having something akin to a #metoo moment in academia is when my social media accounts, email inbox, and…
Read MoreMonrovia Modern is a beautiful and perceptive book that describes the limitations and contradictions of architectural forms of political and urban imaginations in Monrovia….
Read MoreIn her new book, Kirsten Doughty provides us with an ethnographic account of the paradoxes, contradictions and omissions of remediation processes in post-genocide Rwanda….
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