What Do We Owe Students
This week when I went back to Stockholm University the encampment was not there anymore. All songs, music, debates, seminars, whispers, shouts, and slogans…
Read MoreThis week when I went back to Stockholm University the encampment was not there anymore. All songs, music, debates, seminars, whispers, shouts, and slogans…
Read MoreIn the wake of October 7th, I was asked by a fellow anthropologist if my Syrian friends and interlocutors – who participated in the…
Read MoreNot long after Tufan Al-Aqsa in October, political ecologist Andreas Malm observed in an interview the peculiar temporality of popular revolt in the Arab…
Read MoreThe Institute of Women’s Studies (IWS) at Birzeit University in Palestine has launched “Women’s Testimonies from Gaza”, a project aiming to amplify the voices…
Read MoreThe murdered is carried on the shoulders. In haste, a cadaver shrouded in white is slipped into an indoor mass grave. War’s soundtrack echoes…
Read MoreSince the creation of the United Nations, and in line with the civilizing mission’s rhetoric used to justify colonialism, racist arguments about the African…
Read MoreIt is sadly nothing new to argue that oppressed and colonised people have been and are subject to epistemic violence – othering, silencing, and…
Read MoreIs it for a lack of knowledge? The genocide in Gaza is being livestreamed. Daily, images, videos and voice notes proliferate faster than they can…
Read MoreOn November 24th, 2023, a temporary ceasefire paused Israeli bombardment[1] and Hamas-led retaliation in Gaza. The pause was intended to bring humanitarian aid into…
Read MoreRainer Maria Rilke: Words gently end at the edge of the Unsayable… — This morning the weight of generations of violence erupted with the…
Read MoreWe, the undersigned, are deeply concerned by the current, ongoing attacks on academic freedom we are experiencing across Europe. We write this letter in…
Read More“How can we ever forgive them?” I find myself asking over the past month and a half. I do not raise the possibility of…
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