Palestine The politics of unseeing surrounding Muhammad Al-Asibi’s death Muhammad Al-Asibi, 26 years old, died on Friday night, 31 March, after being shot by the Jerusalem District Police next to one of the gates of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. ⋙
Climate politics The military and the climate: restricted access area Although substantial and pervasive, the contribution to the climate crisis of military institutions all over the world often goes unnoticed. The military contributes directly to the climate crisis, as its ⋙
Russia Resisting Putin’s propaganda: successes and failures Since World War I, combatant parties have used propaganda to sway public opinion. Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine offers a vivid illustration of how propaganda has evolved into one ⋙
human rights 8 March- International Women’s Day: Where do we stand? Contributions from ordinarily extraordinary voices around the world On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2023, we decided to ask several outstanding women and men who work from different perspectives on women and girls’ rights around the ⋙
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 ⋙
Russia Authoritarian regime and academic freedom in Russia: a conversation with Arseniy Petrov Co-authored by Ester Gallo (Associate professor at Department of Sociology and Social Research at University of Trento). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, not only Ukrainian academic circles but also ⋙
African Union Positioning “Africa”: extraverted agency amidst global (dis)order A spectre is haunting Africa: the spectre of African agency. Long denied, African agency is surfacing in new ways in the current context of the new global (dis)order and ⋙
Interviews Antisemitism, Palestine and academic freedom. Interview with the European Legal Support Center The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) adopted a working definition of antisemitism of 2016 to address the rise in hate and discrimination against Jews. It has been formally adopted ⋙
migrants Migration Data Governance: A Critical Discussion on the Digital “Black Box” of Migration Digitalization of governance, transparency, accountability, as well as legal and socio-political implications of data-driven migration governance are among the topics addressed during the workshop “Migration data governance” hosted by the ⋙
