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Palestine and the Subversion of International Law

How the UNRWA paradox underpins Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing

June 17, 2024 • by Widad Tamimi

For Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, freedom of movement is non-existent. But to flee is to lose one’s right of return. International law underpins Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing....

Palestine and the Subversion of International Law

Education

The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Public schools are crucial infrastructures in the reproduction of social inequality

June 12, 2024 • by Ujju Aggarwal

Public schools are crucial infrastructures of the reproduction of social inequality and the US carceral state. ...

The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Interviews

Exploring Immigrant Experiences

Annell López on the deeply personal origins of her short stories

April 18, 2024 • by Annell López and Rupal Rao

Annell López on the deeply personal origins of her short story collection, I'll Give You a Reason...

Indigenous Peoples

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

A new book reshapes how we talk about immigration

April 3, 2024 • by T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Alexandra Délano Alonso and Paloma Griffin

T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso chat with Paloma Griffin about challenging conventional stories of immigration in their book NEW NARRATIVES OF THE PEOPLING OF AMERICA....

Belonging as Poetry in New Narratives on the Peopling of America

Indigenous Peoples

Notes on red liberty

The cover art of New Narratives on the Peopling of America

April 3, 2024 • by Marco Saavedra

Everyone is from this earth, everyone is Indigenous, everyone is illegal. ...

Migration

New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration

How can the process that created the city also be responsible for destroying it?

April 2, 2024 • by Achilles Kallergis

More than anywhere else, in New York, the migrant crisis—essentially a migration governance crisis—is an existential one: it interrogates not only the capacity of the city to welcome newcomers but also the city’s broader prospects. ...

Migration

It’s Not a Migrant Crisis—It’s a Political Crisis

The creation of a global category of the unfree

April 1, 2024 • by Nina Glick Schiller

Amidst acknowledging the immediate suffering of migrants and asylum seekers, this critique challenges the narrative surrounding the so-called "migrant crisis." It argues that diverting attention from systemic issues perpetuates dehumanization and supports policies hindering migrants' rights. Emphasizing the need for equitable immigration policies, it advocates for building diverse, inclusive societies....

It’s Not a Migrant Crisis—It’s a Political Crisis

Habitats

Testing the Waters in Gotham

A look at how residents throughout the city’s history have chosen what to drink

March 20, 2024 • by Liviu Chelcea

The three forms of water distribution form a fluid archive of community formation, civic pride, and the many different possible ways New Yorkers can choose the water they drink....

Climate & Ecology

How Can Cities Drive Net-Zero Carbon Goals and Create Vibrant Urban Communities?

Nature-based solutions offer a way forward

March 13, 2024 • by Karen C. Seto

Cities must achieve four goals: minimize greenhouse gas emissions, foster low and net-zero carbon behaviors, minimize changes in land cover that increase local temperatures and exacerbate the urban heat island effect, and create livable and vibrant communities. ...

How Can Cities Drive Net-Zero Carbon Goals and Create Vibrant Urban Communities?

Climate & Ecology

Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale

An excerpt from Interspecies Politics

March 12, 2024 • by Rafi Youatt

The biggest challenge posed by the question of wild animal sovereignties is to the operation of human sovereignty, which itself is figured through animality and in some cases through animals....

Animal Sovereignties and the Wolves of Isle Royale

Climate & Ecology

Taking Water for Granted

Modern infrastructure has created the expectation of a continuous, drinkable flow of water

March 5, 2024 • by Oana Filip and Liviu Chelcea

Water use has always been an indicator of social relations. In western societies, most treat drinking water as a simultaneously infinite and hyper-individualized resource. But plastic pollution and the climate emergency are forcing us to question our consumption habits....

Literature

The Little Prince Haunts New York

Following Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the Ritz to the East River

March 5, 2024 • by Albert Nguyen

When I moved to New York, I set out to discover how my new adopted home had influenced that sense of tristesse in The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry wrote during his 1941–1943 stay in the city....