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​​The Humanitarian Machine: Waste Management in Imperial Wars

One summer day, as I entered a café in Hamra, Beirut—a place I frequent—I spotted Ali Kadri, the Arab thinker whose work had been influencing…

From post-Soviet poor to poor white-ish: the political economy of the settler-colonial Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travelprogram

Following Donald Trump’s recent election victory in the US and his threat of 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico, the liberal Justin Trudeau government in…

Discord by design: The deliberate precarity of Syrian labourers in Lebanon

International organisations responding to large-scale forced displacement often speak the mantra of ‘social cohesion’, drawn to its comforting promise of ‘peace’ through a sense of…

Harvest of Hate: Countering Syrian refugees' misrepresentation in the Turkish media

Abstract This paper explores how the Turkish mainstream media has portrayed Syrian refugees since they arrived in Turkey in 2011. The central argument is that…

Towards a Pragmatics of ‘Disaster Knowledge’: Reflections on Istanbul, Türkiye

Disaster Knowledge; Pragmatics; Displacement; Inter-cross; Group Specificities This contribution is an attempt to explore the possible understandings and practices of “disaster knowledge”, able to inform…

Fostering the roots of the crisis in Syria after the 2011 war: neoliberalism, austerity and corruption

Introduction After more than 13 years of war, the humanitarian and socioeconomic situation in Syria is catastrophic at every level. More than half the Syrian…

Displacements

It is a troubling feature of contemporary crises that some of the most exceptional and abnormal social conditions become the basis for understanding regular and…

Surplus and Displacement, Refugees and Migrants

Originally published at Global Dialogues. Download the article INFOSHEET This article seeks to elaborate on the notion of “surplus population” as a characterization of unemployed…

The Political Economy of Anti-Syrian Hostility in Post-Crisis Lebanon - Report

Lebanon is going through one of the worst economic crises in modern history. At the same time, Lebanon hosts the largest refugee population per capita…

The World is Failing Palestinian Children

Almost a century after the first declaration of the universal rights of children, Gaza is witnessing infants dying in numbers unseen since the Second World…
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