Elections as domestication of violence and threats of war
The 2014 Afghan presidential election reveals the dual quality Achille Mbembe described in Politics as a Form of Expenditure[i] as, both, the domestication of…
Read MoreThe 2014 Afghan presidential election reveals the dual quality Achille Mbembe described in Politics as a Form of Expenditure[i] as, both, the domestication of…
Read MoreWorldwide debates on 2014 Afghan elections condense some of the most influencing myths – one of which certainly being related to freedom – of…
Read MoreThe following thoughts combine views expressed in Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan, blog posts written for Afghanelections14.com and observations made over the last decade of…
Read MoreAfghanistan’s Presidential elections were scheduled to coincide with the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops and Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer of power. The first…
Read MoreToday we continue our discussion on Gaza with a guest post by Lori Allen, previously published at Jadaliyya, and reposted here with her kind…
Read MoreWhile operating in the Ivory tower of the Academia – in this instance referring to the extensive attention we have been bestowing on the…
Read MoreDavid Graeber (1961) is the author of several books on theories of value, social thory and anarchism, including the award-winning Debt: The First 5000…
Read MoreOnly 14 days left before the AAA meeting in Chicago! As the largest conference within our discipline, the AAA triggers both enthusiasm at the…
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