Are we witnessing a global epidemic of sexual violence against women, or are we simply witnessing a temporary surge in public and media interest in a ubiquitous, endemic problem? I suspect the latter — much as a spectacular famine, or a good earthquake, temporarily...
“Resistance in the heart of Europe’s crisis regime” – under this slogan the Blockupy Alliance is planning renewed international protests in Frankfurt this spring. In a nationwide meeting on Sunday in...
Peace and the environment are two equally wide-reaching topics, and consequently they could be studied separately and from a variety of perspectives. In this article, we will endeavour to demonstrate the relationship between peace and the environment starting with the...
On Wednesday night prime German television channel ARD broadcast undercover reportage1http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/reportage-dokumentation/ausgeliefert-leiharbeiter-bei-amazon?documentId=13402260 concerning the treatment of foreign workers at Amazon’s...
The right to protest is currently at the forefront of critical debates about democracy and the nature of the state. Mass protests have been seen across the European Union in response to austerity measures and the policing of protests, direct action and demonstrations...
Wendy Brown is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California in Berkeley and is the author of, amongst many others, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone Books 2010) Celikates & Jansen (‘C&J’): Let us start with a general question about...
