Filming Future Imaginaries in Kurdistan
It was during my fieldwork in Slemani, Iraqi Kurdistan, when I started seeing Kobane popping up everywhere in the city. […]
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Call for Guest Editors / Thematic Threads
The year 2017 is set to be a year where critical new insights are needed at all fronts. And Allegra
Forgotten Refugees at the Tunisian Border with Libya #MeadCompetition
My forefathers were born to slavery, they worked their skin out of them. We are born to suffer. In spite
An Option with no Choice? The Role of Preventive Technologies in (Dis-)Locating a Malaria Epidemic
In August 2016, during a science-meets-policy summit in Kampala’s famous Serena Hotel, a presentation on the (in-)effectiveness of so-called long-lasting
Arabian Medical Genetics: Of Rare Disorders and Decreasing Oil Rent
Medical genetics has long gone global. From WHO recommendations and travelling bioethics experts and DNA samples, to disease-related Facebook groups
Ageing and Care in a ‘Man’s World’
I am thrown into an image: Two figures climbing steep stone stairs, so tall that I cannot see what lies
Antiheroism: the underdog’s survival tactic
“Where do you put your anger?” a precarious academic asked me poignantly the other day as we talked about the
Unravelling Academic Precarity
In conversation, scholars cannot help but constantly raise the subject of their increasingly precarious working conditions and the anxieties that
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
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