Struggle and Politics

Indtryk fra grænsen mellem Serbien og Kroatien

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I ingenmandslandet mellem Serbien og Kroatien Af Beata Hemer, Frederik Johannisson, Kirstine Mose, Lise Olivarius, Nanna Hansen og Paula Bulling • September 2015 Eftermiddagssolen skinner på vejen, der går gennem den lille serbiske landsby Berkasovo få…

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A Few Carrots, Many Sticks

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Germany’s cunning strategy to erode the protection of asylum seekers Over the past few years, refugee protests have received much public attention all over Germany and there was hope, finally, that things would improve. Indeed,…

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Amplify our unheard voices

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This speech was given on the 22nd of May 2014 in Sund, Norway at a public gathering attended by Sund’s mayor. It addresses the political unrest and human rights abuses in Ethiopia, and draws attention…

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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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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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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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The year of the hunger strikes

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When people no longer are in power of their own lives, they can resist by mastering their own deaths. In 2012 the hunger strike was deployed as a mode of resistance among migrants in Danish…

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