As an anthropologist and ethnographer, I attempt to gain access to the participants’ memories in the way I would have liked to have been interviewed.
Using participatory, biographical and visual methods, we got in touch with women’s ‘realities’ in a way that demanded critical reflection.
Students in Myanmar have achieved what few other citizens have since independence: the creation of a lasting national, cohesive social movement united around a core set of grievances and demands.
It is no longer the extraordinariness of the image, but rather its familiarity that lends credibility to the representation of how these immigrant women have made new lives in the city.
Expect more Turkish turbulence and drama to come, and for Turkish politics to once again resemble the years preceding 2002.
History is nowadays not only written by the victors, but by anybody who wants to use history for their own ends.
In order to gain popularity among Turkey’s Kurdish conservative Muslims, HDP is promoting a “Pro-Kurdish democratic Islam” rather than secularism.
Erdoğan’s signature speech act is reciting poems; whereas Demirtaş excites his crowds by singing.
The younger generation is seeing their political awakening in a highly divided Turkey and being forced to take sides in a system where democracy and its institutions are the battleground.
Although the Mandela government was abolitionist, the attorney general of Witwatersrand pressed for the death penalty for two people. This, it turned out, did the world a favour.
Despatches from a trip to the 2015 Palestinian Festival of Literature. Part two: occupation.
Despatches from a trip to the 2015 Palestinian Festival of Literature. Part one: Allenby.
