Hackney Marsh Crow

I zone in on a crow. Each time it’s the same, sideways glances from the crow, turns of the head,…
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Hackney Marsh crow

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…
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Yarls Wood Detention Centre Siraj Izhar

Recovering Community (1)

The political antagonism posed by community — in particular the struggle through it for agency beyond the framework of liberal…
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Calais Jungle 2017

terra nullius Jules Ferry

a postcolonial terra nullius re-emerges out of history as a necessary political conception. It manifests in the ever-multiplying colonies…
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Jules Ferry Calais 2016 Siraj Izhar

One Piece at a Time

Johnny Cash’s song is about how he makes his own dream Cadillac by smuggling out all the parts from the…
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One step at a time

Revisiting Laing

Anti-psychiatry drove at the foundations of both institutions – the family and the asylum. But in the process the asylum…
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Laing asylum

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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…
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11 April 2026 Archive

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…
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Bob Vylan O2. Siraj Izhar

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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Gaza Hosny Salah

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