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.
Enactment of Hope in Sit-in Protest in Henoko, Okinawa
“We are the only people in the world who feel very happy when a typhoon comes. Do you know why?
She braids, I listen
I. Hair as an Opening I first met her in the summer of 2020. An elderly woman, her silver hair
Syria in transition: Impressions from Damascus after the toppling of the Assad regime
This post was written in February 2025. In late January 2025, just under two months after the toppling of the
The Temporality of Violence — Affect, Atmospheres and contested Frameworks in the Study of Colonial Collections
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in
Of Home and Ghosts: Notes on Iraqi Art and Imperial Nostalgia
“Why do most of the paintings speak of war?” Dima, barely nine-year-old, asked me. This summer, as my Royal Jordanian
Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine
In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced
The Social Act We Call Memory
It’s a cold early-winter morning in South Brooklyn. The streets are empty. My friend Gabe explains that it’s only a
The coopting of ‘participation’ in development discourse: observations from the ground
When concepts such as ‘participation’ that emanated from radical movements with the objective of transforming social relations and power structures
Two sides of the same Euro: A field note on recent farmer protests from southern Italy
Between February 8 and 9, 2024, two fleets arrived in Brindisi, a port city in the southern Italian region of