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Giulio Regeni

Toward a Radical Use of Memory

January 24, 2017 • by Franco Palazzi and Michela Pusterla

“A highly promising young scholar of social and economic development in the Middle East,” as his obituary reads, Giulio Regeni was a PhD candidate at Cambridge, who moved to Cairo for his fieldwork, researching independent trade unions, especially that of street vendors, in post-Mubarak and post-Morsi Egypt. After disappearing on ...

Feature

Renzi’s Right Way

Italy’s Constitutional Reform Vote

December 3, 2016 • by Franco Palazzi and Moreno Stambazzi

On Dec. 4th, Italian citizens will cast their ballot to approve or reject a vast Constitutional reform firmly put forward by the so-called "center-left" government headed by Mr. Matteo Renzi. If the votes in favor prevail, a third of the articles of the Italian main law will change. This would ...

Feature

Italian Constitutional Reform

The “Urgent” Solution to a Non-Existent Problem

October 24, 2016 • by Luca Baccelli

“The reform of the second part of the Constitution cannot wait any longer.” This sentence from the introductory report to the “Renzi-Boschi” Constitutional Bill (A.C. 2613 -- D) could sound quite odd to an American reader. In fact, the Italian Constitution, entered into force on January 1, 1948, has been ...

Race

And Yet It is Round!

Untimely thoughts on Europe, Migration, and the State

August 31, 2015 • by Chiara Bottici

Untimely thoughts on Europe, Migration, and the State

As I do every year, I have spent most of this summer on the Italian coast, in the region around the Gulf of Poets. This summer, as soon as I put my head underwater, I am struck by the beauty of the sea: the ...

Theory & Practice

Pasolini: Sexting the World

July 15, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

His original and perceptive theory of neo-capitalism came from direct engagement with the problems of making a postwar, post-Fascist culture. His commitment to the Grand Old Cause of the people was both moral but also erotic, even carnal. He wanted – needed – to cock-suck the world. Such was his ...

Multi Media

The Camp as a Space of Political Membership

Video of Nando Sigona’s Lecture

March 6, 2015 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility hosted a lecture by Nando Sigona entitled "The Camp as a Space of Political Membership," with discussion from professor Michel Agier on February 17, 2015, in the Klein Conference Room at 66 W. 12th Street. Included is a video of that event.

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The Camp as a Space of Political Membership

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The War on Fascism

April 2, 2014 • by Eli Zaretsky

By my title,“The War on Fascism,” I do not mean the war between the US, the Soviet Union and Great Britain, on the one hand, and Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and imperial Japan on the other, the war that took place between 1939 and 1945. Rather I mean an unspoken ...