Forced Migration and the Humanities

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Published on: 10 July 2017

Written by: Iain Chambers All articles by Iain Chambers

Artists are mapping new itineraries of the Mediterranean, throwing into relief an incurable colonial wound that...

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Published on: 22 June 2017

Written by: Zoe Holman All articles by Zoe Holman

The world-class €37 million Documenta arts festival comes to Athens – and brings challenging questions about art’s...

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Published on: 11 May 2017

Written by: Jerome Phelps All articles by Jerome Phelps

Even at a celebrity art gala you can don an emergency blanket and feel good about yourself. Hard political...

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Published on: 21 April 2017

Written by: Karolina Follis All articles by Karolina Follis

British opposition to search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean and Polish pseudo-theological justifications...

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Published on: 12 December 2016

Written by: Saradha Soobrayen All articles by Saradha Soobrayen

The islands were ‘swept and sanitised’. An albatross/ was spared, and the order given: ‘…a few man fridays...must go’.

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Published on: 12 December 2016

Written by: Agnes Woolley All articles by Agnes Woolley

Written by: Mariangela Palladino All articles by Mariangela Palladino

Both material and figurative walls are shaping our present. Now is the time for the arts and humanities to intervene...

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Published on: 3 October 2016

Written by: Mariangela Palladino All articles by Mariangela Palladino

Written by: Agnes Woolley All articles by Agnes Woolley

When we let people die rather than provide safety, we face not a ‘refugee crisis’ but a crisis of values. The arts...

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