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

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

Frontline street

The street of May ’68 seems invitingly open, virginal, feral compared to the complex means of control and policing today…
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The frontline Street from 1968 Siraj Izhar

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

Hackney Marsh 1 2 & 3

… within its history is a chain of role reversals that unravel in this global age and produce new directions…
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Hackney Marsh

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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…
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Bob Vylan O2. Siraj Izhar

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