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Recovering Community (2)
The erasing of community takes place not only through eviction by the State. It also takes place in political writing…
The Republics of the Jungle
.. a process of dismantling the colonial empire without having to choose between French colonialism and national independence. Its project…
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…
Free School
.. the putting back into social use of empty property should be rewarded. That is to follow market logic as…
The Other Scene of Emergency
To understand the month of June 2020 enfolded between Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter requires a reading of its political…
Domestic footprint
The “do with less” mantra has limited social currency if ecological footprint is disconnected from the complexities of social capital…
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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 in the twenty-first is for legislation to ban language of…
Rap vs. The State
Through rappers such as Bob Vylan and Kneecap, an insurgent rap tells us why the scale of killing in Gaza is not only bound with our own repression but also…
Mandate 2.0
The word Mandate here refers to the arrangement by which the fate of the people in Palestine was handed to European colonial powers a century ago. A rereading of the…
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