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Shut it Down #YarlsWood
On a wet windy November day in Bedfordshire, outside the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre, Judith an ex-detainee is on…
Revisiting Laing
Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
Crossing the Trenches
The image is the means by which we both avoid the Other and yet represent the Other. As the rights…
Parliaments of Dartmoor
The rugged landscape is itself the result of ecological collapse. Once upon a time Dartmoor was a dense forest. Then…
Trump tropes
the unrequited quest for a transparency of power also leads perversely to the One, a spectacular enactment of the Leader….
Soft Power and Hotspot Life
A defining aspect of hotspot life is that it always seems to ask “so how long will this last?” But…
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Managing the Boomerang of Genocide
If we recall the scramble for territory by European states at the end of the nineteenth century, the scramble now…
Rap vs. The State
Through rappers such as Bob Vylan and Kneecap, an insurgent rap tells us why the scale of killing in Gaza…
Mandate 2.0
The word Mandate here refers to the arrangement by which the fate of the people in Palestine was handed to…
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