term

Border Activism

Forensis Is Forensics Where There Is No Law

During Forensis, an exhibition and conference at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin this Spring, researcher-curators Eyal Weizman and Anselm Franke talked to Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri about the relationship of forensics to emancipatory politics and the aesthetic implications of ‘forensic realism’

 

Jimmy Mubenga’s inquest verdict: Unlawful Killing G4S and BA must now be prosecuted

THE ALL AFRICAN WOMEN’S GROUP (AAWG) WAS MEETING WHEN THE NEWS CAME IN – OVER 60 WOMEN ASYLUM SEEKERS CHEERED IN A MIXTURE OF RELIEF AND TEARS – THEY SAID:  

Half-Truths

Susan Schuppli discusses the exhibition by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Aural Contract: The Whole Truth, at Casco in Utrecht

 

In her 1971 essay, ‘Lying in Politics’, Hannah Arendt contends that in order to act, a space must be created for that action, which by necessity requires that something be removed or destroyed to allow for the new to emerge.

 

Cash Cows and Job Poachers? Non-EU Students and Austerity Politics

The recent fiasco over the London Metropolitan University’s recruitment of non-EU students has exposed their widespread mistreatment as both cash cows and job poachers. This culture of exploitation, writes Kirsten Forkert, is happening amidst growing opposition to immigration linked to austerity

 

Subscribe to RSS - Border Activism