Red Lemons is a moving debut collection about drug addiction and loss told through both a narrative and surreal lens, swaying from logic to absurdity, grimness to beauty.
Waiting for the Revolution to End explores the Syrian
revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile. Based on
more than three years of embedded fieldwork with Syrians displaced
in the ...border city of Gaziantep (southern Turkey), the book places
the Syrian revolution and its tragic aftermath under ethnographic
scrutiny. It charts the evolution from peaceful uprising (2011) to
armed confrontation (2012), descent into fully fledged conflict
(2013) and finally to proxy war (2015), to propose an understanding
of revolution beyond success and failure.
While the Assad regime remains in place, the Syrian revolution
( al-thawra ) still holds a transformational power that can
be located on intimate and world-making scales. Charlotte
Al-Khalili traces the unintended consequences of revolution and its
unexpected consequences to reveal the reshaping of Syrian
life-worlds and exiles' evolving theorizations, experiences and
imaginations of al-thawra. She describes the in-between
spatio-temporal realm inhabited by Syrians displaced to Turkey as
they await the revolution's outcomes, and maps the revolution's
multidimensional and multi-scalar effects on their everyday life.
By following the chronology of events inside Syria and Syrians'
geography of displacement, the book makes the relation between
revolution and displacement its centerpiece, both as an
ethnographic object and an analytical device.
Praise for Waiting for the Revolution to
End
' Waiting for the Revolution to End is essential reading
for scholars and students wanting to understand the temporal and
affective orientations at play in the aftermath of the Syrian
revolution. Al-Khalili presents a lucid ethnography of
revolutionary hopes, defeat, and displacement hereby offering a
sustained theoretical engagement with the social, political and
religious forces that undergird Syrian existence.' Andreas
Bandak, University of Copenhagen
'Although so much has been said about the Syrian revolution,
surprisingly little has been written about what it did to the
selves, hopes, and lives of those who joined it but were defeated.
Waiting for the Revolution to End is a very important and
urgently needed contribution that tells the story of the revolution
as it is understood by ordinary Syrians who turned into
revolutionaries by participating in the uprising from its
beginnings in 2011 and 2012, when the possibility of a non-violent
overcoming of a violent regime still appeared within reach. Writing
through the experience of living among displaced Syrians in
Gaziantep, Al-Khalili tells us something that political analyses
from above so often miss: the transformational power of
participation in the revolution, and the cosmogonic change it
effected in the minds and lives of people while they were
tragically defeated. Speaking of defeat rather than failure of
Syrian revolutionaries, Waiting for the Revolution to End
weaves a rich, emphatic, convincing, tragic yet also hopeful story
of the possibility of dignity.' Samuli Schielke,
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
'Charlotte Al-Khalili's stunning and moving ethnography is a
landmark in the study of revolution, social change and mobility.
Through an extraordinary portrayal of the lives, hopes and fears of
Syria's exiled revolutionaries in their "capital", Al-Khalili
transforms understandings of how migration shapes revolutionary
subjectivity, how grassroots revolutionary activists theorize
revolutionary outcomes, and how revolutionaries reorganize families
and networks to keep ideals of social transformation alive.'
Alice Wilson, University of Sussex
Although there is no overt ideological battle in the twenty-first century, citizens in every latitude register growing dissatisfaction with the results delivered by their governments. In the West ...they increasingly turn to populist forces to seek an easy respite to the frustration caused by the failures of democracy. Other models of governance, such as China’s "autocratic capitalism", rest on technocratic command and control methods that are disdained in the West but whose global appeal is growing mostly due to their perceived ability to deliver. No matter how and where they are practised, these alternatives seem to offer only partial and unsatisfactory answers to increasingly complex questions of governance. In a world ravaged by pandemics and climate crises, migration flows and cyberwars, rigid rule-making imparted from above or populist over-simplifications brewing from below can only represent the extremes of a more sophisticated picture of governing processes. In this book, Fabrizio Tassinari seeks to rediscover the methods, practices and limits of good governance. By taking inspiration from the Nordic region, where democratic governance has delivered some of its most impressive feats, he shows that populism and technocracy are not the causes of our political malaise; they represent skewed by-products of the most basic instincts in our body politic. They need not be suppressed but channelled and reconciled in our practices of governing.
Following in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt, Sherry Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor's ...mummification and journey to the afterlife.
Why did the Eurozone crisis prove to be so difficult to resolve? Why was it resolved in a manner in which some countries bore a much larger share of the pain than other countries? Why did no country ...leave the Eurozone rather than implement unprecedented austerity? Who supported and who opposed the different policy options in the crisis domestically, and how did the distributive struggles among these groups shape crisis politics? Building on macro-level statistical data, original survey data from interest groups, and qualitative comparative case studies, this book argues and shows that the answers to these questions revolve around distributive struggles about how the costs of the Eurozone crisis should be divided among countries, and among different socioeconomic groups within countries. Together with divergent but strongly held ideas about the “right way” to conduct economic policy and asymmetries in the distribution of power among actors, severe distributive concerns of important actors lie at the root of the difficulties of resolving the Eurozone crisis as well as the difficulties to substantially reform European Monetary Union (EMU). The book provides new insights into the politics of the Eurozone crisis by emphasizing three perspectives that have received scant attention in existing research: A comparative perspective on the Eurozone crisis by systematically comparing it to previous financial crises, an analysis of the whole range of policy options, including the ones not chosen, and a unified framework that examines crisis politics not just in deficit-debtor, but also in surplus-creditor countries.
Delegating Responsibility explores the politics of migration in the European Union and explains how the EU responded to the 2015–17 refugee crisis. Based on 86 interviews and fieldwork in Greece and ...Italy, Nicholas R. Micinski proposes a new theory of international cooperation on international migration. States approach migration policies in many ways—such as coordination, collaboration, subcontracting, and unilateralism—but which policy they choose is based on capacity and on credible partners on the ground. Micinski traces the fifty-year evolution of EU migration management, like border security and asylum policies, and shows how EU officials used “crises” as political leverage to further Europeanize migration governance. In two in-depth case studies, he explains how Italy and Greece responded to the most recent refugee crisis. He concludes with a discussion of policy recommendations regarding contemporary as well as long-term aspirations for migration management in the EU.
Democracy Here and Now presents a detailed account of
the 15M Movement in Spain - one of the important participatory
democracies of the early twenty-first century.
Proposed as a collection of imaginary logos for the corporate sponsors of Borges’s Library of Babel, Kern balances on a precipice between the visual and nonsensical, offering poems just out of ...meaning’s reach. Using dry-transfer lettering, Derek Beaulieu made these concrete pieces by hand, building the images gesturally in response to shapes and patterns in the letters themselves. This is poetry closer to architecture and design than confession, in which letters are released from their usual semantic duties as they slide into unexpected affinities and new patterns. Kern highlights the gaps inside what we see and what we know, filling the familiar with the singular and the just seen with the faintly remembered.
Data Loam Paganelli, Mattia; Reinhart, Martin; Golding, Johnny
2020, 2021, 2020-12-16
eBook
Open access
As an urgent response to the continually growing flood of information to which libraries, search engines, and cultural institutions are exposed, Data Loam combines radical approaches and strategies ...from the international practice of contemporary art in essays on artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and cryptoeconomics that put forward sensual logic, causal permeability, and new forms of man–machine interaction.
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