“Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today’s technical resources while maintaining the property system.”

- Walter Benjamin, 1936

About Jenny Morgan

Jenny Morgan is a writer and documentary film-maker with a particular interest in Africa and the Middle East

Articles by Jenny Morgan

Unruly politics: atomised movements, activist individuals and clientilism

Jenny Morgan 10 October 2011

Do new social media create new forms of citizen action? Jenny Morgan reports on a knowledge exchange conference in the Hague

Beating the Black Country blues

Jenny Morgan 15 September 2011

On the council estates of post-industrial Dudley, in the British West Midlands, where far-right anti-migration candidates have had some electoral support, local people and migrants are feeling their way to common ground

Breaking the cycle: step by step in Smethwick

Jenny Morgan 23 August 2011

The Somali refugee community in Smethwick is less than ten years old. Muni Abdikarim and Ahmed Sirad spoke to Jenny Morgan about their work with middle-aged Somali women who are being turned away from a doctor's surgery and told 'Come back when you've got an interpreter'

From civil war to the cult of cool

Jenny Morgan 11 August 2011

The policy of dispersing migrants in Britain has led to large numbers of Somali refugees in Smethwick, a town notorious for anti-migrant mobilising in the 1960s. In the first of her Letters from Smethwick, Jenny Morgan describes a meeting with charismatic Somali community organiser Hodan Rashid.

Peace of mind

Jenny Morgan 26 May 2011

If some of us had hoped to walk away with a global plan of action rather than a series of personal commitments stuck up on a board, well, we just may have forgotten that it's personal commitment that makes brave women stand up every day - Jenny Morgan reports from the closing session of the Nobel Women's Initiative conference

If this is 'peace', when does it start for women?

Jenny Morgan 26 May 2011

'The word "reconciliation" hurts me', Bakira Hasecic says. 'All I want is for those who have hurt me to be brought to justice.'

Peace negotiations:did you carry a gun?

Jenny Morgan 25 May 2011

'If sons are fighting, doesn't it make sense for their mother to help make peace?' Jenny Morgan reports on conversations at the Nobel Women's Initiative conference

No rubber stamping here

Jenny Morgan 24 May 2011

Anyone who's never been to a big feminist conference doesn't know what they're missing. It's not just the jokes that are constantly flying around the room; it's not just the fact that making space for women to tell their stories is in the DNA of such events

'Wounded warriors': sexual assault in the US military

Jenny Morgan 23 May 2011

Sexual violence in the US military is massively under-reported -- when the US Airforce commissioned Gallup to do a poll, one in five serving women said they had been raped or otherwise sexually assaulted, and one in twenty men; but very few had formally reported the attacks to their commanding officer - Jenny Morgan reports from the Nobel Women's Conference in Quebec

The 'Big Society': filling the breach

Jenny Morgan 14 December 2010

If Prime Minister David Cameron’s 'Big Society' brings religious groups to the fore even more than Tony Blair’s opening of the education system to faith groups, what impact will this have on British society?

Brethren in power

Jenny Morgan 13 August 2010

The direct involvement of African Christians in battles over social policy in the USA is mirrored by the involvement of the American Christian Right in Africa, as they collaborate to oppose progressive forces in civil society and shape government policy

Spirit, hope, money and a dose of patriarchy

Jessica Horn and Jenny Morgan 9 July 2010

A growing movement of African Christians are making waves at home and abroad with their ultra conservative interpretations of scripture. Far from a naïve embrace of conventional norms or a faithful embrace of scripture, these interpretations are emerging as clear political choices and are undermining women's rights struggles across the African continent

This week's editor

Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

Europe from the bottom up

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