Interview with Latif Tas on Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora
Today we are happy to share with you an interview with Latif Tas who is a socio-legal researcher currently based […]
Conversation Kurdistan One-Shots
The Land-Grab Trap. Is there a Will to Govern Global Land-Grabbing? #AIGNetwork
How to govern the “global land rush” was at issue in the final negotiations on Principles for Responsible Investment in
Universities in a State of Exception
Today we continue our thread ‘Allie’s Jewels on University Crises’ by a post by Dimitris Dalakoglou, originally published in October
Democracy building unraveled
This thematic thread gathers together a series of posts by leading experts and anthropologists of Afghanistan, who analyse the 2014
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,
After Elections: Hope?
Worldwide debates on 2014 Afghan elections condense some of the most influencing myths – one of which certainly being related
Violence, Voting and the Monopolization of Power
The following is based on edited excerpts from the introduction of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political
Democracy building in Afghanistan?
The following thoughts combine views expressed in Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan, blog posts written for Afghanelections14.com and observations made over
Afghan Elections: the pen, the gun and the slippage between
Afghanistan’s Presidential elections were scheduled to coincide with the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops and Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer
Moral Geography of US/Mexico borderlands: space- and place-making at the edge of America #BORDERS
The creation and maintenance of a national border is an act of political geography. The building of a wall or