by Adam Levy, University of Colorado at Boulder When the EU received the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing “democracy and human rights in Europe”, it joined a group whose more incongruous...
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Intervention – Remote Sensing as Remote Control? A Political Geography of EU Border Surveillance
Intervention – Homeland Security and the Precarity of Life in the Borderlands
by Geoffrey Boyce (University of Arizona) and Jill Williams (Clark University) In Precarious Life, Judith Butler (2004) argues for a feminist transnational politics based on the precarity of life -...
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Intervention – Liberalism’s Slavery and the Geographies of Freedom
by Christopher Taylor, University of Chicago Almost immediately following Barak Obama’s re-election, an image began circulating through Twitter and Facebook that positioned the electoral...
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Intervention – The Right against the city
by Antonis Vradis, London School of Economics “Reclaim our cities”. “Self-organise”. “Take neighbourhood action”. Consider these slogans for a moment. Sound familiar? Indeed they should,...
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Intervention – The London Olympics: Urban Geopolitics
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick As the London Olympics 2012 draw to a final close and the city returns to its quotidian routine it is perhaps time to analyse some of the long-term...
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Intervention – Towards a Multi-dimensional Concept of Forced Labour
by Siobhan McGrath, Lancaster University The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently updated its estimate of the number of people worldwide in forced labour. The new estimate is...
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Intervention – Past is present: Settler colonialism in Palestine
by Omar Jabary Salamanca (Ghent University), Mezna Qato (University of Oxford), Kareem Rabie (City University of New York) and Sobhi Samour (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) This is...
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Intervention – We have never been neoliberal
by Kean Birch, York University This is a slightly revised version of an article that originally appeared on the New Left Project website This article was originally written as a response to a piece...
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Intervention – The brutal lives of others: Exploitation in the academy
by Kean Birch, York University In the Chronicle of Higher Education, William Pannapacker - under his pen name Thomas H. Benton - wrote an article titled ‘Graduate school in the humanities: Just...
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Intervention – Never stop writing
by Freerk Boedeltje, San Diego State University In the midst of Communist Czechoslovakia it was not unusual to have trials against political opponents. They carried the name of ‘dissidents’....
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