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 ⋙
asymmetries Job (security) hunting or, the job that wasn't there On the quality and the quantity of the quest for international jobs today. Adopting a generation-graphic approach I reflect in this post on the dynamics revolving around international jobs applications. ⋙
borders Peripheralizing Europe How We Can Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Peripheries. Peripheralizing Europe (“an east/south encounter of translocal politics and practices”) is the title of a meeting that has ⋙
criminal justice Human capital? The making, unmaking, and remaking of subjectivities In this essay I reflect on the notion of ‘human capital’, steered by the latest Paolo Virzi’s movie with the same tittle, and its implications on our subjectivity, relying ⋙
EU My Name Is Isolation On traveling with a Kosovo passport in the European Union gated community. In visa application procedures, I have no identity. My identity is my passport and my passport is my ⋙
CIA In-Court Securitising Speech-Acts On the endless need for the re-securitisation of state security. The so-called ‘Copenhagen school’ of security studies has stirred the waters of international relations theory, and perhaps of social sciences ⋙
biopolitics Crossing through the darkness once again “Unless the world learns the lessons these pictures teach, night will fall... but by God’s grace, we who live will learn” Shown recently at the Documentary Film Festival DOCVILLE ⋙
Culture Richard the Third is back in town The Shakesperian villain reincarnates in Congressmen Underwood in the tv series "House of Cards". Series are more and more the best we can expect in the solitude of ⋙
Debate On Structural and Latent Violence Where does violence hide? A reflection on invisible and epistemic violence that we have received. If you downgrade racism and violence to the commemoration of ‘Zwarte Piet’ in the Netherlands ⋙
drugs policy In 2016 Heads of States Can Change the Course of International Drugs Policy. Where Does the EU Stand? While virtually no one in Europe would dispute the failure of drug wars, the EU stays away from the driving seat of international change. In the context of global drugs ⋙
EU anti-terrorism policy We Saw it Coming: Jihadist Terrorism, Challenges for the European Union Nothing about the recent Paris or Copenhagen terrorist attacks was totally unexpected. Indeed, they were the sort of thing that security apparatuses in Europe had been preparing to have to ⋙
drugs policy Crime and the Drug Debate in the Russian Federation Once one abandons the concept that the security praxis of any state is ever politically ‘neutral’, the manner in which different states instrumentalize security policy in the generation of national ⋙
Bonn Somalis on Hold, between Return Dreams and Everyday Life Challenges Notes over a Somali meal at the Bonn-based Somali community. There’s no way around it: this is not just the usual suburban area of the usual German town. Different ⋙
American sniper American Sniper Fights the new Indians The resurrection of classical Western movies stereotypes as a grotesque Iraqi tale. Why do enemies look all the same? Why do they wear the same clothes, use the same weapons, ⋙
