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Section V of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, titled “A City Visible but Unseen,” is not about an imaginary city but a migrant ghetto wilfully disavowed. The unseen citizenry are undocumented migrants in London who, because of the Thatcher government’s austerity cuts, cannot find affordable accommodation in the public or private sectors, and who live in […]
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As I was conceptualizing a project on death in early 2016, a friend and colleague I was visiting in Jerusalem mentioned a sloppy online essay that had drawn the ire of Palestinian feminists. The piece essentially argued that Palestinian women had difficulty receiving an abortion in the West Bank because of “culture.” Thinking about abortion […]
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Now we remember millions of species that died from centuries of war with nature. But we can learn from this, and build peace with nature instead. We've done this many times before, and to do so again we must remember and restore the old ways of harmony and sufficiency.
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A History of Polish Theatre offers a new and original look at the complex pasts of Polish theatre. The editors wished to move away from strictly devised forms of periodization, and instead build historical narratives through ‘constellations’, a direct reference to Walter Benjamin, who constructed novel conceptions of historical time and historical intelligibility based on […]
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The more small groups there are, and the more they talk with each other, the more valuable they all become, to each other, to local and national governments, and to the future.
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On November 10, 2021, Judge Piotr Hofmánski, the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave the ICC’s annual address to the United Nations General Assembly. In his speech to the General Assembly, Judge Hofmánski thanked the United Nations for its commitment to the ICC and highlighted some of the ICC’s success over the past […]
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Diversity is on everybody’s lips these days, along with equity and inclusion. These are indeed praiseworthy efforts to start righting the wrongs of the past. May they flourish! Diversity itself is diverse – it comes in a myriad of intersecting identities. One of many identities that we have is the one that our language gives […]
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Climate change touches many aspects of our lives. For those on the margins of society, the impacts of climate change are particularly acute. Women, the poor, and racialized communities suffer disproportionately from extreme weather events, droughts, and other effects of a destabilizing climate. Climate change is now a bedrock issue, underpinning the health and resilience […]
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