This is a short version of a long journey of a Syrian family as it was inherited to me by Mandela (what a nice coincidence) who was 11 years old back in 2016. It is their journey from Syria to...
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Conjunctural Insurrections – “Mandela’s Journey: From Syria to Athens”
Conjunctural Insurrections – “Terms and Conditions Apply”
Black Americans have asked white Americans to put their bodies between the police and black bodies. In a similar vein, Sharjeel Imam asked Hindus to come out on the streets with Muslims and shout...
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Intervention – “A Dialogue Between the Border and the Corridor (in Times of Corona): Conversations on Method”
By Nivi Manchanda ([email protected]) and Sharri Plonski ([email protected]), School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London This project is an...
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Intervention – “Corner Stores, Surveillance, and All Black Afterlives”
by Naya Jones, University of California Santa Cruz; [email protected] As I write, Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout the United States and around the world. All Black Lives Matter...
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Conjunctural Insurrections – “Revolutionary Curiosity”
I have written about uprisings, but I have never lived through one, until this May. There was radical optimism – fleeting, maybe – in Minneapolis as abolition moved to the tip of tongues and...
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Conjunctural Insurrections – “I Played On Your Tanks”
They are appalled seeing military tankspatrolling their streets and neighborhoods.Shooting people on their own lawnIn their own gardensBut where do you expect to see your own military?Your own...
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Conjunctural Insurrections – “Bingo Cards for Racist Bullsh*t in Academia and STEM: A Reflection on Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism”
In light of ongoing racist incidences and protests in the USA and elsewhere, there have been growing resistance movements and conversations of systemic and structural racism in society. In...
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Conjunctural Insurrections – “Aboriginal and Black Lives Matter”
This edited audio piece is from the Sydney, Australia Aboriginal and Black Lives Matter protest. I recorded and edited this short clip as a scholar/activist radio maker, and in solidarity with the...
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Conjunctural Insurrections – “Homeplace: A Site of Resistance, Revisited”
Being home feels a little like stolen pleasure and liberation, like a reclamation of Black woman time. Notwithstanding the anxious hellos and begrudging hand waving of my white neighbors who are...
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Intervention – “Social Justice Where Transitional Justice Failed: Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Spatial Considerations of Service Delivery”
Susan Forde (University of York; @Susan4025) Spatial Inequality A- we are very much entrenched by the legacy of apartheid.B- In terms of where we stay, where we are allowed to stay,...
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