Turkey Book Talk #256 – Nora Fisher Onar, Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies at University of San Francisco, on “Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in…| Turkey Book Talk
Turkey Book Talk #251 – Özgür Özkan, visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, on the domestic and regional implications of Turkey’s push for the…| Turkey Book Talk
Click here to hear the companion podcast “Kill me now, please kill me.” This was how Basema, a middle-aged Yazidi woman now living in Toronto, recalled her harrowing experience of being abducted by ISIS, separated from her family, and sexually assaulted during the Yazidi genocide in 2014. The genocide On August 3rd, 2014, ISIS militants […] The post The injustice of the Yazidi genocide continues after 11 years first appeared on The Upstream Journal.| The Upstream Journal
Turkey Book Talk #248 – Bilge Yabancı, Ikerbasque Fellow and Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, on “Civil Society and Authoritarianism: Co-optation, Repression and Co…| Turkey Book Talk
Listen to the companion podcast here Sixty-five years after the People’s Republic of China invaded Tibet, the diaspora is now shifting to the West. What are the advantages and disadvantages to a changing diaspora and why is it happening? To find out, I spoke to three experts: Dr Namygal Choedup, the Representative of His Holiness| The Upstream Journal - Your magazine on human rights & social justice
Listen to the companion podcast here José Luis Méndez Gómez grew up without access to running water in San Miguel Mitontic, a village of predominantly indigenous Tzotzil ethnicity in Chiapas. There was no infrastructure for water access until the 1990s, when an inadequate rainwater collection system was put in place. Indeed, this system was only| The Upstream Journal - Your magazine on human rights & social justice
To hear the companion podcast in English, click here. En enero de 2024, cuarenta carrotanques estaban parados en el aparcamiento de una base militar en Uribia, Colombia. Enviados para combatir la urgente escasez de agua en La Guajira, ningún carrotanque salió del aparcamiento. En medio del escándalo gubernamental y la corrupción regional, las comunidades sedientas […] The post Tradición y Tenacidad: Cómo los mujeres Wayuu sostienen La Guajira first appeared on The Upstream Journal.| The Upstream Journal
John Root offers this review of Eric Kaufmann's Taboo: How making Race sacred produced a Cultural Revolution. The week-end before last the Wireless Festival was held in Finsbury Park just down the road from my home. Amongst the items that attendees were prohibited from bringing were ‘Clothing, garments, items which promote cultural appropriation’. What’s going| Psephizo
