Rooms That Refuse to Remember Us. On the hidden labor of hospitality
Drawing on autoethnographic experience as a hotel cleaner in Amsterdam, this essay examines how the hospitality industry renders its workers structurally invisible.
“There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.
1: VISA
Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It centers their analyses of
2: SEMESTERS
The second episode explores the material and symbolic motivations for Gambian youth choosing the backway to Europe, contrasting the modern,
3: JOURNEY
In this episode YAIM members retrace their perilous backway journey towards Europe in 2016/2017, across West African borders into Libya, highlighting the systemic
4: Detention
In this episode, YAIM members recount their experience of detention in Tariq al Sikka, one of Libya’s official detention centers,
5: Return
In this episode, YAIM members describe how they kept their sanity inside Tariq al Sikka through music, shared prayers, and
6: (Neo)colonialism
In this episode, the conversation turns to the structural conditions that make the backway feel like the only viable option
7: Advocacy
In this final episode, the conversation turns to advocacy – what it means to do it from within a country shaped
Permaculture Pedagogies and the Art of Living Together: Timor-Leste’s Aspirational School Curriculum
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to grow vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of the national school curriculum.