What thread links the political experience of Tute Bianche with the Book Blocs we have seen last autumn on the streets of Rome and London? What is the link between the alter-globalisation movement of Seattle and Genoa and the student and youth movements that are now...
Newcastle Law School; Wednesday 9th March 2011: 9.30am – 4.15pm Newcastle Law School are running a one-day symposium focusing on the thought of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Agamben’s work has received a huge amount of exposure over the past decade, mostly...
A Workshop hosted by the Oxford Brookes Critical Approaches to Law Research Group – Friday 6th of May 2011 The ordering of space, a derivative of intellectual conceptualism, is an act of violence executed through aesthetic means. (Ronen Shamir, 2001) This...
Just under three years ago, people in the village of Gumbi in Western Malawi went unexpectedly hungry. Not like Europeans do if they miss a meal or two, but that deep, gnawing hunger that prevents sleep and dulls the senses when there has been no food for weeks...
48, Susana de Sousa Dias 93’ minutes, Betacam Digital, Portugal, 2009 screening and discussion with the director Friday 28 January, 6:30pm University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street opening night screening of: ¡Documentary Now! A Conference on the Contemporary...
In this period of economic crisis and neoliberal attack on labour and social rights in Greece, we also face a generalized attack on migrants’ rights, a broad campaign by the PASOK government and the mass media to use migrants as scapegoats for social insecurity,...
