Coal Comfort
Understanding capitalism’s use of fossil fuels to control labor puts us in a better position to fight it
Settled History
Tourist attractions in contested settlements use local history to project Israeli nationalism into the future
There Will Be Thinkpieces
One thing is very clear.
Media Matters
Silicon Valley’s rhetoric of magical innovation relies on a hidden abode of rare earth mining and hydro-cooled server farms
Evicted Utopias
Art, so often used by developers to mask the violence of displacement, can instead be used to resist gentrification
Can She Dig It
"Unearthing lost gems" often reinforces the gendered principles that have excluded women from cultural canons
Print on Demand
As Palestinian history is erased, its archive becomes a nomadic war machine
The Taste of Earth
For decolonial archaeology, being "of the soil" shifts with the wind.
Psychic Refuge
Psychiatry pathologizes and depoliticizes the trauma of the refugee experience
The African is Not at Home
African migrants and refugees within the continent bear the contradictions of binding African identity to land.
Forget Me Not
Memorials to dead cops try to bury injustice in a display of ersatz collective grief
Arms and the Man
In an antiblack world, black people, even when weaponless, are always considered armed
Policing the Troubles
In divided Northern Ireland, policing by consent turned into community vigilantism
The Black and Blue Line
South Africa’s turn to untrained black constables to maintain order as apartheid crumbled reveals the inherent limitations of community policing
My Own Private Detroit
Private policing in the Motor City
Blue Skies
Body camera manufacturers see profit in the “cop cloud”