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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…