BDS What is the point…? How do we as educators tasked with creating and fostering active learning, critical thinking and civic engagement — the core aims of higher education institutions — continue our work in light of ⋙
Reviews Risky pleasures: (re)viewing Rebel as researchers In the last few years, we have been involved in researching the topic of repatriation and reintegration of returnees from Syria and Iraq to France and Belgium. The topic is ⋙
Reviews Moving past the worst thing In November 2020 the European Forum for Restorative Justice organised an arts’ festival on the themes of justice, solidarity, and repair. Among the contributions of REstART was the documentary The ⋙
Reviews Gomorrah's criminal divas Feminism’s critique of popular culture for the way they degrade, objectify, distort and stereotype women are legion. In relation to their engagement with crime and violence for example women ⋙
Culture A single destiny binds the world: Immunity, Community, and Finitude The virus has become the widespread metaphor for all of our nightmares – Roberto Esposito, Terms of the Political, 2008 While not unexpected, the coronavirus pandemic has taken the whole world ⋙
Debate Restorative justice and terrorism: resisting evil with non-evil? The restorative justice approach has great potential in responding to terrorist acts, and the ensuing polarization, because it focuses on forms of political and pre-political communication, exchange and encounters that are able to allow ‘difficult’ but respectful conversations in societal space. ⋙
Debate Crimes of (dis) obedience: Radical shifting of the criminological gaze The development and unification of criminology as a discipline, as a distinct terrain of study and knowledge complex has mostly revolved and condensed around two interrelated focuses: 1. legally defined ⋙
migrants Europe as Terraferma: against the criminalisation of solidarity In recent years the EU institutions and most member states have criminalised not only the illegal entry into the EU territory, but also citizens' human solidarity with irregular migrants ⋙
Debate First they came for... Academic (or otherwise) freedom threatened in Turkey. Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s lynching and defamation modes are again on the headlines, this time with the charges and accusations ⋙
Culture ENDURAsphere: the total terrorism solution On the 12 January, 2016, in a press conference at the European Parliament, an activist group called The Yes Men, masqueraded as the Global Security Response, presented ENDURAsphere, an anti-terrorism ⋙
criminal justice Human capital? The making, unmaking, and remaking of subjectivities In this essay I reflect on the notion of ‘human capital’, steered by the latest Paolo Virzi’s movie with the same tittle, and its implications on our subjectivity, relying ⋙
biopolitics Crossing through the darkness once again “Unless the world learns the lessons these pictures teach, night will fall... but by God’s grace, we who live will learn” Shown recently at the Documentary Film Festival DOCVILLE ⋙
arts Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict Ravaged—Art and Culture in Times of Conflict at M Museum in Leuven, Belgium (until September 1st 2014), marks the centenary of the First World War. The exhibition has truly ⋙
Debate Organised Loneliness: A Personal Excursus Into ‘Secure’ Suburban Life This is a reflection on the tension between human search for security and development. I will be that human, in order not to speak for others. Both are important dimensions ⋙
arts Context and not only Content Explorations on justice through New Media Documentaries. The exhibition Convictions brought together at STUK cultural centre in Leuven, Belgium (26.09 – 17.11 2013), four projects by the Californian digital ⋙
