Counting our Losses: Reflections from a Newton Fund/British Council Workshop on Loss and Displacement
The past is irrecoverable and the past is not past; the past is the resource for the future and the future is the redemption…
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This thematic thread explores how the notion of loss illuminates the politics of mobility and global crisis-scapes of austerity, borders, climate change and conflict. Curated by Fiona Murphy and Evi Chatzipanagiotidou.
NO WALL TO LEAN ON
By Dalene Swanson. Who counts as human? Whose lives count as lives?… Loss and vulnerability seem to follow from our being socially constituted bodies,…
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Urban development and the resistance of archaeology
By some estimates, one in ten thousand people in Turkey is an unemployed archaeologist. In an alternative café while on a last-minute contract in…
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A Story of Two Stones
On a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was trying to catch the…
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From self-identified ‘Turkish migrants’ to ‘Kurdish Diaspora’ in London
Loss and its relationship to translation and incommensurability have been central features of my work. My interdisciplinary PhD (Social and Political Thought, Sussex) and…
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Loss in times of revolution and exile
What does loss mean for Syrians living in Southern Turkey in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution and in the midst of an ongoing…
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