The Perfect Crash: A Political Overview of the New Suez Crisis in the Geo-Historical Scenario
Only a few days have passed since the Suez Canal has been unblocked. Hundreds […]
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Roundtable Discussion on “Cinema and Social Conflicts”
To celebrate the publication of our sixth volume, on “Cinema and Social Conflicts,” members of […]
Global Migration, Local Charity: African Refugees, Food Provisioning, and the Declining Israeli Middle Class
Since the mid-2000s, African asylum seekers and refugees have entered Israel in an attempt to […]
Literary and Visual Rememory at the 90th Anniversary of the Banana Massacre in Colombia
Introduction: Remembering the Masacre de las Bananeras 2018 marks the 90th anniversary of what has […]
Food Riots, Strikes, and Looting in Brazil between 1917 and 1962: Defining the Repertoires of Working-Class Revolt
When one speaks of “food riots” as a phenomenon specific to Brazilian history, it may […]
The Food Riot as a Form of Political Conflict in France
Food riots in France since the seventeenth century can be most meaningfully explained not […]
Food Riots in Bangladesh? Garments Worker Protests and Globalized Subsistence Crises
This paper explores the politics of provisions in Bangladesh through an analysis of the […]
Pre-Histories of Revolutionary Nationalism and the Welfare State: Corocoro, Bolivia (1918-1930)
In 1930, Enrique Linares wrote in to the Municipal Judge of Corocoro, a small copper […]