Book review: Decay edited by Ghassan Hage

In Decay, Ghassan Hage brings together contributors to explore the mechanisms, conditions and temporalities of social and material decay in a variety of settings across the globe. Encouraging new ways of thinking about social change and the relationship between perpetuation and transformation, these essays are provocative, imaginative and stimulating in their research, finds Helen Mackreath. Decay. Ghassan Hage (ed.). Duke University Press. 2021

Book review: here to stay, here to fight: a 'race today' anthology edited by Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock

Here to Stay, Here to Fight, edited by Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock, is a new anthology of the reports, essays and interviews published by the Race Today Collective, which ran from 1974-88. Tracing the arc of Race Today’s archive through this collection, Helen Mackreath observes that Here to Stay, Here to Fight is far from a historical document; instead, it is part of our urgent collective present. Here to Stay, Here to Fight: A ‘Race Today’ Anthology. Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock (eds). Pluto Press. 2019

El papel de las comunidades de acogida en el norte del Líbano

Los estudios realizados en Akkar, en el norte del Líbano, sugieren que el papel desempeñado por la comunidad de acogida da fe de la sobrada capacidad local, que debería ampliarse para promover un compromiso cívico y un empoderamiento aún mayores

Book review: Decay edited by Ghassan Hage

In Decay, Ghassan Hage brings together contributors to explore the mechanisms, conditions and temporalities of social and material decay in a variety of settings across the globe. Encouraging new ways of thinking about social change and the relationship between perpetuation and transformation, these essays are provocative, imaginative and stimulating in their research, finds Helen Mackreath. Decay. Ghassan Hage (ed.). Duke University Press. 2021

Book review: Remaindered life by Neferti X. M. Tadiar

In Remaindered Life, Neferti X. M. Tadiar examines modes of living that go beyond the binary of ‘productive’ and ‘disposable’ life propagated under global capitalism. This comprehensive and imaginative account is not only compelling for exposing the brutality of our current global political economy but also for doing justice to the complexities of moving beyond it, finds Helen Mackreath. Remaindered Life. Neferti X. M. Tadiar. Duke University Press. 2022

Book review: The coloniality of asylum: mobility, autonomy and solidarity in the wake of Europe’s refugee crisis by Fiorenza Picozza

In The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis, Fiorenza Picozza offers a new ethnographic study of autonomous border struggles in Hamburg, Germany, looking at how ‘the coloniality of asylum’ not only permeates the European border regime, but can also shape the various solidarity initiatives that seek to contest and trangress it. With the aim of contributing to ‘an anticolonial political imagination that can sustain daily struggles against the asylum regime’, this book is a politically committed, empirically and theoretically rich account that raises the question of who exactly is the subject of refugee solidarity in Europe, finds Helen Mackreath. The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis. Fiorenza Picozza. Rowman and Littlefield. 2021

The role of host communities in north Lebanon

Research conducted in Akkar, north Lebanon, suggests that the role played by the host community demonstrates good local capacity which should be built on to encourage further civic engagement and empowerment