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

Mandate 2.0

The word Mandate here refers to the arrangement by which the fate of the people in Palestine was handed to…
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Gaza Hosny Salah

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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Domestic footprint

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

A politics of arrival

The arrival of the corona virus Covid-19 in Europe was staggered, uneven, belated and sudden. The first reported case of…
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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 colonial resistance. That is how the boomerang turns the stage…
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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 coincides with a rising fascism at home. Rap entwines these.
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Bob Vylan O2. Siraj Izhar

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