Posts By Mia Johansen

visAvis podcast om Kobani

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Kobanis flygtninge i Suruj Del 1 VisAvis møder Jamal på en cafe på Nørrebro, og taler om situationen i omkring Kobani. Situationen inde i Kobani Del 2 Jamal fortsætter sin historie, men fokusere nu på…

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I survived, but my life has stopped

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BY ALI • ILLUSTRATION BY YILDIZ ARSLAN • FROM #10, 2014 I live in a camp waiting for nothing. I’m a rejected asylum seeker. I have been in Denmark for two years and one month…

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Editorial to visAvis #10

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BY VISAVIS • ILLUSTRATION FROM THE PROJECT LOVE IS SWEET, BUT CANNOT EAT • FROM #10, 2014 Hello and welcome to visAvis # 10! Our efforts and hopes for this issue are part of an…

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The structures that made people isolate themselves

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In the fall of 2012, visAvis visited the Refugee Protest March in their tent camp on Oranienplatz in Berlin to conduct interviews, reports and to tell the protesters about their opportunity to express themselves through…

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Momentum of the disobedient

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Last year on October 6th, Refugee Tent Action set up shop at Oranienplatz in Berlin, physically claiming a space for asylum politics, which were at the time marginalized in Germany. One year onwards visAvis visits…

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Discussing gender structures in the camps

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Each Monday, women with and without Danish citizenship meet in the user-driven culture house, The Trampoline House, to discuss women’s conditions and strategies for survival across the globe. On Monday the 3rd of June 2013,…

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Those who tend to cause trouble

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Affective outcomes of the politics of differences, otherness, and strangeness and how these shape bodies over time are some of the main concerns in Sara Ahmed’s writings. As a professor in Race and Cultural Studies…

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