Of backways and legitimate concerns
Review of Backway to Europe: Talking Borders and Migration with Gambians on the Move (Series 1)
Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field
Luisa Enria reflects on profoundly sensitive experiences of fragility, power and reflexivity in the context of her long term ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone.
Over 2,100 Hours of Silence: The Battle to Speak in the Name of Iran’s People
This fieldnote examines Iran’s internet shutdown — 2,100 hours accumulated over an eighty-eight-day near-total blackout, the longest documented outage in contemporary world history — not as a technical failure but as a political form.
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd. 2025. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. Chicago: Haymarket Books. “To refuse that which has been refused
Fight, Flight, Freeze, Film
This article proposes filming as a response to threat in addition to the commonly recognised responses, fight, flight and freeze.
“There is Nothing to See”: Silence and the Atmosphere of War
This essay examines the social life of silence in the Lake Chad Basin after years of insurgent violence.
Go to Palestine—And Go with All Your Heart
Settler colonial terror in a question Amidst arranging a backpack with her family during a short trip away, an inquisitive
Anti-heroines and Oman’s revolutionary afterlives
Images of female fighters in liberation movements from the global south have a wide appeal as symbols of radical social emancipation and iconic revolutionary heroines.
«Please don’t scroll»: Social Media as Humanitarian Communication in Gaza
Since October 2023, I have been exposed to images and videos from Gaza that I will never forget. Although I
The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
Gideon Levy. 2024. The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. New York: Verso. In The Killing of Gaza: Reports on