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Published in: openSecurityThe urban paradox
As Cities in Conflict goes on hiatus, I take a look back at the past fourteen months of publishing articles, film,...
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Published in: openSecuritySplintering Tunis
Three years after the revolution, Tunisia is searching for a new urban identity.
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Published in: openSecurityTunnelling borders
The growing ubiquity of militarized borders has with it produced a subterranean network of cross-border tunnels. In...
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Published in: openSecuritySchwarzwohnen: The spatial politics of squatting in East Berlin
East Berlin's squatter movement erupted across the city after the fall of the wall in 1989. But what role did...
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Published in: openSecurityMonuments to resistance
With the rise and repression of popular political protest on the streets of southern Europe, new monuments to...
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Published in: openSecurityCorporate colonisation of new India
Twenty years of corporate colonisation of the Indian countryside has fuelled conflict, forced-urbanisation and the...
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Published in: openSecurityCity forgotten
Watch: Through the eyes of residents, local activists and civil society members, 'City Forgotten' tells the story of...
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Published in: openSecurityViolence and displacement in suburban Dhaka
A combination of violent rural and urban displacement have produced rings of poverty and exploitation on the...
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Published in: openSecurityMount Zion: the city within
Rather than submit to the noxious dynamics of Spain’s colossal underground economy, the migrant workers of Mount...
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Published in: openSecurityAn uncertain future for Tunis
Two years after the revolution, Tunisians have reclaimed public spaces in the city. But failing municipalities, a...
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Published in: openSecurityThe case for city status in post-war Gulu
In northern Uganda, local leaders are pushing for Gulu to receive city status. But does the municipality have what...
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Published in: openSecurityDakar unsettled
State ambitions to build a 'global' Dakar alongside a proliferation of diaspora-financed luxury development,...
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Published in: openSecurityUrban security and the 'tricks' of endurance
Urban security is often thought of as strategies to protect and disarm city populations, however security may also...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job