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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…

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…

“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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 –…