Tag Archives: good life
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: The cruel optimism of migration and non-spectacular borders
Polina Manolova
If ‘hopeful dreams’ are the ‘stuff’ of which migration is made, as Samuli Schielke (2020: xiii) has recently remarked, then we need to ask what are the imaginary constructs that transpire in subjective aspirations towards the ‘good life’ and what is the price that one incurs for pursuing these through migration. As imaginaries, contrary toRead more
ATC: On Solidarity: Solidarity and Democracy: Lessons from Social Activism Under Austerity in the UK
Shana Cohen
The normalization of far-right politics and racist rhetoric in Europe and the US has led, unsurprisingly, to the rapid growth of a literature examining the potential return of fascism and the concomitant decline of democracy (e.g. Albright (2018); Temelkuran (2019); Bonikowski (2017); Rooduijn (2017); Inglehart and Norris (2016); Albertazzi and McDonnell (2015, 2008); Moffit (2016); MuddeRead more