The Courage of Historical Truths
With the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent…
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Sticky Relationships at Wartime
Chimit, a Buryat professional in his late 20s, had been considering moving to Europe for at least a decade, but this plan proved hardly…
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Against false solidarity. A call for true solidarity among people with experiences of displacement.
Ideas discussed in this contribution were first presented at the Solidarity, Displacement & the University workshop that took place on October 13-14, 2022, in…
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“ARE YOU HEADING TO THE FUN ZONE?”: NOTES FROM THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDER
Research takes you to unexpected places. After finishing my PhD, I got a postdoc position at the ERC-funded project WARFUN led by Antonio De…
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“We don’t have to whisper”: Fieldnotes from Odesa
I met Engineer Yakiv[1] on board a merchant ship I had joined just south of Sri Lanka in early 2013. I was there to…
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Multispecies Anarchism in the Postnuclear World
Connect the dots between “state”, “imperialism”, and “war”. Add “leaders”, “testosterone” and “nukes”. Look at the picture and tell me anarchism was a bad…
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The Vital Afterlife of Chernobyl Cemeteries
Every year, after Easter, hundreds of families from all over Ukraine gather in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. People converge toward the now-deserted area…
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What’s in a Name? From Astana to Nursultan
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (act…
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The Presence of Absence in Surrogate Homes
“Why does it matter if Raia is at home or not?”, the clinic’s flat-manager wondered. “It’s not her apartment but the clinic’s”, she said…
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Embryos on the Move: Transnational Networks of Surrogacy
Gestational surrogacy is a reproductive technology where embryos are produced ‘in-vitro’ in a laboratory and subsequently implanted into the uterus of a woman –…
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Medical Technologies and Infrastructure: Exploring Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in “Global Health”
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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EVENTS! #HumanRights
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we…
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