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Under an intensely red safe-light, a photographic print begins to develop before our eyes: from close up, two tanks move away from us – their turrets pointing into the distance. The tanks, provenance and location all unexplained, are ominously close – so close we can touch them – but yet remain out of reach, strange. …
On January 20, Americans focused their attention on Washington, D.C., as the presidential inauguration ceremony took place on the National Mall, a place that urban scholars, geographers and historians refer to as a “stage for democracy.” As an urban geographer, I study the important role of public space in cities. Perhaps no public space is …
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The big winner Serlahattin Demirtaş. Demotix/ Avni Kantan. All rights reserved. Although the outcome of Turkey’s general election is undoubtedly dramatic, we should be careful not to exaggerate the death either of the ruling AKP or of the country’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Against a backdrop of falling growth and investment and rising unemployment and …
The secret’s out—Greenland isn’t the vacationer’s paradise; Iceland is. In an alarming reminder of the perils of suddenly becoming too popular, Icelandic residents are facing two of history’s biggest threats to peace and tranquility: tourists and pirates. Let’s take pirates first. Yes, we’re talking real ones—well, modern-day rogues, at least. Four years ago, the Pirate …
Click:全国楼凤论坛 From eight glasses of water a day to protein shakes, we’re bombarded with messages about we should drink and when, especially during exercise. But these drinking dogmas are relatively new. For example, in the 1970s, marathon runners were discouraged from drinking fluids for fear that it would slow them down. Now we’re obsessed with …
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David Cameron at an EU summit in Brussels. Demotix/ olivier Vin. All rights reserved.It is a tough moment to make a positive case for the EU. The bullying treatment of Greece, based on destructive and discredited neo-liberal policies and beliefs indicates that the EU has lost its political, moral and economic compass. Nor is this …
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President-elect Trump’s selections for the leaders of his administration have been controversial in the extreme. Just this week, New Jersey senator Cory Booker broke a long tradition of senator conviviality to actually testify against Trump’s pick for attorney general, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, during his confirmation hearing. Booker said he felt compelled by Sessions’ “hostility” …
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World Water Forum 6, Marseille, France, 2012. Flickr. Some rights reserved.This week around 30,000 people will descend on Daegu, South Korea to attend the 7th 2015 World Water Forum (WWF). Often portrayed as a policy-making forum committed to the goal of water for all, the gathering of the international water community is really more of …
Not just trappings: tribal affiliations still matter in Libya. Demotix / Ibrahem Azaga. All rights reserved.More than three years since the fall of Muammar Qaddafi, Libya has plunged into political and security turmoil. Divisions have deepened among the ever-proliferating groups, interests and ideologies. The country has two governments and a plethora of militias control various …
It’s only been a little over a week, but it already feels like an eternity since we heard former President Obama’s reassuring voice delivering a steady hand to the issues of the day. As the nation and the world continue reeling from President Trump’s legally questionable executive order restricting immigration and barring refugees from Syria, …
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