There are numerous approaches to defining “Global Health” (Brown, Cueto, and Fee 2006; Farmer et al. 2013; Fassin 2012; Janes and Corbett 2009), a…
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Are Eastern and Central regions of the EU more Islamophobic than its Western part? This was the question that brought together scholars from different…
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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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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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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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For a long time, the direction seemed to be clear: the days of remote areas were numbered and it was only a question of…
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What makes a place remote? Is remoteness that which is geographically distant from the centre of administrative, political and economic activities? Or is remoteness…
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During World War II, Ruth Benedict conducted research about Japan at a distance. Challenging the stereotypical image of the white male researcher risking his…
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When we think about deserts, we usually imagine them as quintessentially remote. We tend to take their remoteness as primordial rather than see it…
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Hi there pod-pickers, here’s another earful of podcasts for you to squeeze into your drums, freshly prepared by our audiophile associates New Books in…
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When the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple horror of the image…
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1. To what extent does the notion of political agency help to understand political change? I do not think that political agency is no…
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