Brazil in Social (Un)Rest: Cinema in a Provisional State
On May 12, 2016, Dilma Roussef was temporarily removed from the Brazilian presidency as her […]
Human Rights
Lang’s Fury Continues to Resonate in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Eric Garner uttered “I can’t breathe” eleven times on July 17, 2014 when he died […]
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 in Bangladesh? Garments Worker Protests and Globalized Subsistence Crises
This paper explores the politics of provisions in Bangladesh through an analysis of the […]
Human Rights and the Welfare State: An Exploratory History of Social Rights in the Postwar Netherlands
Introduction During the Second World War the concepts of welfare state and human rights were […]