Author: Clare Maxwell

Clare has a Master of Development Studies from the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her background as a social worker, freelance journalist, and human rights activist has led her to work with social, political and environmental movements in the USA, Kenya, Palestine, Lebanon, Greece and Puerto Rico.

Clare Maxwell

Clare has a Master of Development Studies from the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her background as a social worker, freelance journalist, and human rights activist has led her to work with social, political and environmental movements in the USA, Kenya, Palestine, Lebanon, Greece and Puerto Rico.

Book Review Reviews

The Kobane Generation

January, 2024 / By Clare Maxwell

In September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the […]

Book Review Reviews

Border Porosities: Movement of People, Objects, and Ideas in the Southern Balkans

December, 2023 / By Clare Maxwell

Petroleum engineering may seem like an odd place to find metaphors for the field of border and borderlands studies. Yet,

Academic Fictions Threads

Nina was here

February, 2021 / By Clare Maxwell

“Miss Nina, time to wake up! First bus leaves in half an hour!” Nina opened her eyes halfway, and nodded