Academics for Peace Turkey: Repression Everywhere As we reported several months ago on this blog, the first challenge to the illiberal order gradually shaped over the last few years by the Turkish President has been a ⋙
Colombia Colombia's Referendum: Low Turnout and Activist Minorities How to dash hopes that civil wars can be ended with honor and rehabilitation. After negotiating a comprehensive peace agreement with the FARC-EP guerrillas and signing in on September 26th, ⋙
migrants Refugee Status? I'd rather not, thank you! Migrants' (pre)occupations and the racialised approach adopted all along the Central Mediterranean Route. While Italy has become one of the main access gate to Europe, a large part ⋙
Islamic State It's not all about violence: the Islamic State and Nutella “I’m making pancakes, and there’s Nutella, come up in a bit” “oi … you have my back dont snake it” “come b4 I finish dem mwhaha :p” These tweets, ⋙
cinema The Repugnant Other: Reading Halliday in Hollywood Comparing vintage Hollywood myth-making with contemporary narratives on Islam. Let’s start with a little quiz for the analysts of jihad and radicalisation among our select readership. Where is this ⋙
Islam Reforming Islam in Morocco A few notes on the 'Mālikī Third Way’ (to heaven). Islam-inspired armed groups and terrorist attacks stroked public opinions and affected political equilibria in contexts as diverse as France ⋙
election Niger's Game of Thrones The high stakes of the 2016 presidential elections. “Me against my brother; but me and my brother against our cousin; me, my brother and my cousin against our neighbours; and ⋙
Debate Cause of Death: Research On Giulio Regeni's abduction and killing in Cairo. Giulio Regeni, Italian PhD student in development studies, University of Cambridge, has been found dead on February 3rd 2016, with ⋙
Arab Spring Finding Another Tunisia Field notes from the social protests in Kasserine. Despite the imaginaries projected by mainstream media, the new wave of protests unfolding in Tunisia has little to do with political Islam. ⋙
migrants Would-be Refugees and Migrants as Tourists in Tuscany's Mugello The fallacious nature of the Italian hosting system for migrants and asylum seekers. Micro-level, decentralised Accoglienza Diffusa is the predominant approach to the ‘management’ of the migratory flows from the ⋙
Debate First they came for... Academic (or otherwise) freedom threatened in Turkey. Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s lynching and defamation modes are again on the headlines, this time with the charges and accusations ⋙
academic freedom For Academic Freedom in Turkey The editorial board of Security Praxis shares the concern expressed by scholars, researchers and political analysts for academic freedom in Turkey. We endorse the Public Statement of the Presidents and ⋙
Culture ENDURAsphere: the total terrorism solution On the 12 January, 2016, in a press conference at the European Parliament, an activist group called The Yes Men, masqueraded as the Global Security Response, presented ENDURAsphere, an anti-terrorism ⋙
activism Walking between Praxis and Practices Since critical approaches have been injected into the realm of Security Studies[1] the assaults on positivist postures have mounted. Over the last two decades, Critical Security Studies (CSS) embarked ⋙
asylum seeker Tahriib, Titanic, and Residence Permit Seekers Old and new Somali migrations flows to Europe, between voluntary and forced relocation. Drawing from field work at the local Somali community based in Florence (Italy), in this post I ⋙
Culture Under the Sycamores Luca Rastello, journalist and writer. 9 July 1961 - 6 July 2015. The curtain opened and he passed away. Luca Rastello’s corageous work must be known across all those ⋙
