đường dây Côn Đảo
Great! Just great. Director: Lam Son (AKA Bùi Sơn Duân, 1932-2001). Writers: Nguyen Huy Khanh and Vu Hanh, starring Thuy Lien as Tuyet Mai, Ha Van Buu as…
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Maison Centrale de Saigon // General Sciences Library
Trying to read in the library but looking out the window at the reminder that this is no ordinary library experience. A few parts from a recent text:…
“Saigon’s Penalscape: Interpreting Colonial Prisons in Vietnam” – first 50 Pdfs free
Your article, Saigon’s penalscape: interpreting colonial prisons in Vietnam, with Sophie Fuggle, is now published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 23 Issue 3 Have you used your free eprints yet?…
Comparative Urbanism and who gets [funded to] compare
In the current conjuncture, with the increasingly complete capture of university research by corporate interests, only the alternative incorporation of research teams that start outside the universit…
Assange and how truth does not set you free
******************** On thursday 9th Dec 2021 the first 15 minutes of my lecture on Media outlined the reasons why the extradition of Julian Assange should be opposed and…
30 Minute Methods at TDTU – Ken Fero
This has a shaky start because the zoom settings were wacko, But after a minute its much better. Ken Fero talks on obstinate memory under the title: ‘Documentary…
DNA Testing of Immigrants Is Unethical
The collection of genetic biodata for the reunification of families must safeguard individuals’ agency, provide meaningful informed consent, and protect privacy. DNA testing has been used for nearly…
In the Journals – Conflict and Captivity
POW release to UN authorities was the first step in repatriation. Here, communists turn over UN troops at the POW receiving center at Panmunjon, on the border of…
Double Injustice: Media Racism
Back in 2003 Imogen Bunting, whose birthday it would have been today, wrote this on the film INJUSTICE by Tariq and Ken. To date the film still has…
In the Journals – Confinement and Mental Health
Cour des agitées by Amand Gautier via wikimedia Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that are often siloed by discipline, geographical…
The Sobraj Challenge
Well, I know, this is not such an appropriate headline and a bit cheeky to add it, but I find this article predictable and mind-boggling at the same…
Frantz Fanon on Care:
‘To care for someone is not only to give him or her the possibility not to die, it is above all to give him or her the possibility…
Boy Scout
“‘There is no document of civilization that is not simultaneously a document of barbarism‘” (Walter Benjamin Illuminations) William Burroughs’ annotated Boy…
Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method
Prison Photography Reframed: Object and Method 11 May 2018, Nottingham Contemporary, UK This one-day workshop brings together photographers, historians, criminologists and anyone interested in questio…
Migration as Clickbait
The demonization of young migrants and their families may be shocking, but these policies and practices are neither new nor surprising. On October 24, 2017, United States Customs…
Turkey.
Gah. Still. No. Change. >Subject: Call for solidarity for the academics for peace on trial Dear colleagues, Our colleagues in Turkey are facing incredible repression under a populist…
Mr Ram Nath Kovind, President of India, There are many in your jails, but some I have invited for talks at University of London several times. This requires your immediate action sir. Thank-you.
LETTER FROM PROF G N SAIBABA FROM INDIAN PRISON Letter from Sai written on 17th October received on 25th October 2017 Dear Vasantha I am frightened to think of coming…
“First Strike”
First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles Damien M. Sojoyner Challenging perceptions of schooling and prison through the lens of America’s most populous state Taking an insider’s…
GRIL – Stoler “Duress”
A glitch in child sleeping patterns, and unemployment, means I’ve had a lot more time to think (and rethink) and of late get to read. So much so,…
Press Release: Arbitrary Detention and Imminent Deportation of 147 Cubans
Press Release No. 2 | July 6, 2016 – 22:00 Quito-Ecuador Today in the early morning, between 2am and 3am, the Ministry of Interior Affairs and the Ecuadorian…
Enduring Uncertainty. Deportation, Punishment and Everyday Life
On the 14th of April of 2010, I was approached by J. who had come across my doctoral research when desperately searching the net in an attempt to…
Detention for Unaccompanied Children
Exploring Child Migration through a Legal and Anthropological Lens Part I: Overview In 1985, a 15-year old girl named Jenny Lisette Flores fled the El Salvadoran civil…
In the Journals – May 2015
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of journal publications on security, crime, law enforcement and the state. As many are skirting dangerously close to the…