Perched at 3,500 m in the Indian Himalayan Region, Leh is the historic capital of Ladakh, a high-altitude desert once criss-crossed by caravans trading between Tibet, Kashmir, and Central Asia. For centuries it sat on a branch of the Silk Road, its monasteries and markets reflecting a mix of Tibetan Buddhist, Central Asian and Kashmiri […]| Randomwire
In recent months, the United States has moved decisively toward mass-scale deportations, framed in the… The post Towards a Moral Imagination of Migration Beyond Expulsion appeared first on RAIOT.| RAIOT
The fighting in Ukraine is only part of Russia’s wider war against the continent as a whole. It’s high time to recognize this reality and act accordingly.| POLITICO
In his recent article, “Borders, States, and Armed Conflicts in Europe and Northeast Asia Since 1945: The Moral Hazard of Great-Power Encroachments,” Mark Kramer discusses the significance and perils of international borders in Europe and Northeast Asia over the past eight decades. He explores the crises and conflicts that erupted when states or other entities... Source| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Recognizing borders as distributed violence allows scholars to reimagine sovereignty, governance, and order in ways that move beyond the Westphalian template.| E-International Relations
submitted anonymouslyIn the early morning hours of July 23rd, an Insitu van was set ablaze while it sat in an empty lot across…| PUGET SOUND ANARCHISTS
The U.S. president’s desire to be “peacemaker-in-chief” is based on a profound fallacy: that peace merely entails an end to fighting.| POLITICO
Drew Hogan answers 6+1 questions about how the United States does, and does not, support its overseas citizens.| The Duck of Minerva
When a border slices through Kurvaleti in Georgia, what vanishes is more than land: trust, kinship, and belonging unravel across a simple division.| Untold Mag
Nigel Farage is preparing for a summer offensive on borders and security.| New Statesman
Hate weaving ends? Then you will love this crochet envelope border for a mosaic blanket, which hides your ends inside for the perfect finish!| Juniper and Oakes
Get Your Game On with My Checkers Plays Pop Baby Blanket!The Checkers Plays Pop Baby Blanket features a bold checkerboard effect worked in soft green and off-white, with playful pink and mustard pinstripes for a pop of colour. This blanket combines fun colourwork to create a modern twist on a classic baby make. The name was inspired by the kids' TV show Cheggers Plays Pop — a| Lullaby Lodge
Learn how to crochet a heart granny square baby blanket with this free pattern and video tutorial – perfect for baby showers and gifts!| www.lullabylodge.com
The 40th anniversary of the Schengen area this year places the EU in an uncomfortable […]| Foundation for European Progressive Studies
The number of undocumented entries detected by the Federal Police fell drastically in 2024. At the same time, the number of suspicionless checks almost doubled. In 2024, the Federal Police carried out 6.1 million checks at German borders, more than twice as many as in the previous year. This is according to the Federal Government’s […] Der Beitrag Racial profiling almost doubled: Left party calls to unjustified checks at German borders erschien zuerst auf Matthias Monroy.| Matthias Monroy
This morning, I realised I was right on the Franco-Swiss border—technically, I’d probably slept in Switzerland last night. As I walked, I noticed several boundary stones marking the border with both French and Swiss insignia. I passed the ruined Batterie de la Roche Jella, a 19th-century artillery post built after the Franco-Prussian War to guard […]| Randomwire
If you’re new here, welcome to On the Commons! Here, we explore questions as varied as: Why are three little-known 15th-century papal bulls still being weaponized against Indigenous sover…| Antonia Malchik
Organisers: German Historical Institute of Paris/German Historical Institute of RomeDate: Academic year 2025/2026Language: EnglishCoordinators: Dr. Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris), Dr. Kordula Wolf (DHI Rome) The German Historical Institutes of Paris...| Dialog und Austausch
By DCC Team Surplus populations are people capitalism no longer needs for work or consumption. They aren’t an accident but a built-in feature of the system, growing “in the direct ratio of its own energy and extent” (Marx 1976:782). These populations embody capitalism’s contradictions, existing as both the byproducts of economic growth and the human […] The post Surplus Populations first appeared on DECOLONIAL CENTRE. The post Surplus Populations appeared first on DECOLONIAL CENTRE.| DECOLONIAL CENTRE
By DCC Team The security-industrial complex refers to the network of relationships between governments, private corporations, and security agencies that profit from and sustain “security”. Security here means systems of surveillance, border control, and detention. This is related to the rise in global migration. It is a form of racist state control and the security-industrial […] The post Security Industrial Complex first appeared on DECOLONIAL CENTRE. The post Security Industrial Com...| DECOLONIAL CENTRE
Let’s take a look at the highlights of Trump's first weeks. It has not all been bad, but it's not looking great.| The Hidden Dominion
Myanmar’s insurrection condenses the sequence of revolts elsewhere in this century. […] As Myanmar’s insurrectionary rupture climbed hills to ignite a rural armed struggle, however, a new set of co…| Chuang
Tables once ruled web design, with nested tables causing both creativity and chaos. Replaced by CSS for layouts, they’re now a nostalgic tool still essential for data.| Web Designer Depot
DSEI (Defence & Security Equipment International) is one of the world’s largest arms fairs. Hundreds of people got in the way of its set-up at London’s ExCeL Centre in September 2017. Dabke-dancing, aerobics, a gig on a flatbed truck, abseilers dangling from a bridge, theatre, military veterans undertaking unofficial vehicle checks for banned weapons, Kurdish... The post Blocking and exposing the arms fair in 2017 appeared first on Stop the Arms Fair.| Stop the Arms Fair
Back in the autumn of last year, in a train in Freilassing, a German police officer came through the carriage and asked for everyone’s passport. “Why are you checking all the passengers on this train?” I asked him, in German. “Because we check everyone at this border” “Sorry you don’t. […] The post Germany’s complete disregard of Schengen – ethically wrong, and practically unworkable appeared first on Jon Worth Euroblog.| Jon Worth Euroblog
In 2013, Group 484 invited several artists to work with asylum seekers in an asylum centre near the village of Bogovadja, near Valjevo. At that time, the number of migrants in Serbia was not nearly as large as it is today. The issue of migration, except in the narrow circles […]| The Occupied Times
A diminishing number of grassroots U.K. musicians are performing at the continent’s festivals.| POLITICO
By Julia Buyskykh. For decades, anthropologists have been studying borders and borderlands, concentrating on marginalised groups (whether minorities, migrants, or refugees), cross-border state relations, border shadow economies, and the multiple identities of populations settling along borders, whose silenced voices often contradict official state narratives of history, identities, and religion. In this article, the author reflects upon her own experience, entangling it with current anthropol...| TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
I’ve been getting more interested in Badiou lately—I bought and have been reading “Theory of the Subject,” casually, or at least as casually as one can read such a book. What is good about Badiou is that he offers a real revolutionary lucidity; he doesn’t get led astray in the sense that the so-called “crypto-fascist” … Continue reading Talking Badiou, Borders, and Bernie→| mcrumps blog
A first-hand experience report about the bus from Kon Tum to Pakse crossing the Bo Y - Phukeua border between Vietnam and Laos.| Backpack Moments
Do you need to get from Almaty to Bishkek by bus? There are 5 buses daily, all departing from Sayran Bus Station and you can book them online!| Backpack Moments
Both sides have claimed victory in a closely-watched presidential contest that will have ripple effects across the Americas.| POLITICO
Matt Nelson interviewed Lisa Birnbach for Borders a few years back when True Prep was published, a book she co-authored with art director Chip Kidd. Birnbach also edited The Official Preppy Handbo…| Thrift Store Preppy
“Borders generate more human possibilities: citizens standing for the rights of noncitizens, finding them refuge, seeking them sanctuary, pushing at the margins of the state and its sovereignty.”| Public Books
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Andrew Lee explores how the frontiers between countries, their borders which are literal and figurative, also create adoptees in the material and in the ethereal.| Plan A Mag
