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The violent face of bureaucracy
Whenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s…
Read MoreWhenever I meet Merule, a 42-year-old Nigerian citizen living undocumented in Milan, Italy, I am struck by the number of people he knows. Merule’s…
Read MoreThere has never been a better documented war than the one unfolding in Palestine at the moment. As Elshaik, Martinez and Shaer write in…
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 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 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…
Read MoreThe title of this statement is a direct quote from Gazan-based journalist Muhammad Smiry, who took footage of how people in Palestine recharge their…
Read MoreThe culture of fear instilled by the increasingly right-leaning structures of power that govern public spaces and our universities in the Global North have…
Read MoreI am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push…
Read MoreWhat better place could there be to think about the interconnections between service, duty and care than the Venetian Palazzo Vendramin dei Carmini? The…
Read MoreOn April 20th, 2023, SpaceX attempted the first integrated flight of its biggest rocket called Starship. SpaceX is a private American aerospace company that…
Read MoreSeveral weeks into my fieldwork at one of the Integrated Tribal Development Agencies (ITDA) in Telangana, a federal state in India, I couldn’t shake…
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