Intervention – 'Defending Future Commons: The Gezi Experience' by Ozan Karaman

Ozan Karaman, University of Glasgow, [email protected] The 2013 uprising in Turkey commenced with a call by a handful of activists to guard a park located adjacent to Taksim Square - the...
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Intervention – 'Rethinking Democracy in Iran: Rouhani President Elect of Iranians'

by Simin Fadaee, Humboldt-University of Berlin The landslide victory of moderate-reformist Hassan Rouhani in Iran's recent presidential election came as a surprise for the West. Until the day of the...
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Intervention – 'PRISM and the Individualization of Discipline and Security'

by Seth Schindler, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin In this intervention I argue that we are witnessing the emergence of an individualized mode of discipline and security that bypasses populations....
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Intervention – 'Whose City? The Parasites', of course…'

by Andy Merrifield In 1970, the English sociologist Ray Pahl published a collection of essays under a simple yet disarming title, Whose City? The question was more original than it sounded, even if...
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Intervention – Mad World? On the Social Construction of Economic Value

by Brett Christophers, Uppsala University The past two weeks have witnessed an extraordinary public and political outcry about levels of remuneration in the UK’s teaching sector. While there have...
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Intervention – Resisting Austerity in Crisis-Hit Southern EU Countries: The Case of Greek Non-Appointed Faculty Members

by Stelios Gialis, Hellenic Open University / University of Georgia “Now that we have overcome the hardship of the mountains we need to subdue the adversities of the valleys…” Bertolt...
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Intervention symposium – 'Explosive geographies'

On April 15, 2013, two bombs targeting the Boston Marathon exploded on Boylston St, killing three and initiating the United State’s most visible domestic security operation of the decade. Two days...
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Intervention – Cartographic Nationalism and Territorial Confusion in East Asia

by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick Introduction The idea of nationhood rests on the claim of a specific territorial area. The cartographic demarcating of territory automatically exposes,...
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A bit of radical humour for AAG week…

"A true joke...suddenly and explosively lets us see the familiar defamiliarised, the ordinary made extraordinary, and the real rendered surreal...Humour brings about a change of situation..." - Simon...
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Intervention – 'Doing the Right Thing in Detroit' by Andy Merrifield

“Neutrality isn’t cool” -- Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Detroit Recorder’s Court, 1980 A little while ago, I participated in an evening of revolutionary politics at the Roxy Bar and...
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