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Podcast: Mourning, Mobilizing, and New Forms of Labor Resistance
Who’s torching the driverless taxis? How many AI features can people swallow before Google gets socialized? And why is kicking ICE out of neighborhoods a union issue? In this Turning Point conversation, we explore the new horizons of labor struggles with Sarah Jaffe.
Unemployment, Exclusion, and Lay-offs of Women from the Workplace under Crisis Conditions in Iran
High inflation rates, economic recession, war, and an internet shutdown lasting over two months have placed severe pressure on Iran’s labour market. The consequences have been particularly grave for women, leading to widespread layoffs and dismissals.
“The Robot Helps, But It’s Not the Same as Someone Staying:” AI, Aging, and the New Frontline of Emotional Labor in China
Two marionettes are directed by robotic arms in this art piece using creative robotics. CC Florian Voggeneder Link copied! Every afternoon around four o’clock, Mr. […]
“They Came at Night”: Inside the State Trafficking System Between Tunisia and Libya
In this landscape, European funding enters the system as a resource to be contested. The result is not stabilization, but a reconfiguration of conflict along new lines, where migration control becomes part of the struggle.
Turbulence in Eastern Mediterranean: How Warships and Warming Seas Strangle Fish and Fishermen
With military tensions soaring, the Eastern Mediterranean is increasingly criss-crossed by military vessels, and at the risk of the same environmental damage seen on its neighboring seas. With world leaders openly talking of a global conflict just round the corner, what is to happen to the seas that we hardly got to know?
The Unmapped Sea: Power, Blood, and Identity in the 16th-Century Mediterranean
Power over the sea was once contested, but today, in an era of one-way migration, the overwhelming power sits entirely on the Northern shore. The sixteenth-century Mediterranean established three fault lines that define our modern fractures.
From Seas of Solidarity to Circuits of Empire: How Energy Remade the Mediterranean
Far from cradling the Palestinian resistance, Cyprus and Greece are now complicit partners in the surveillance and onslaught of its liberation fighters. How did this corridor of solidarity shift so dramatically?
The Last Guardian of al-Hol: Jihan Hanan’s Lone Struggle in the World’s Most Dangerous Camp
Located near the Syrian-Iraqi border, al-Hol was one of the largest and most controversial camps in Syria. ©Maryam Ashrafi Link copied! The road was no […]
Podcast: Transnational Feminism And Culture of Life
In this Turning Point magazine conversation, the first of its kind, Japanese, Kurdish, Rohingya, and Palestinian-Lebanese feminists explore how transnational feminism can create genuine security based on life and freedom and challenge what is called the “culture of killing.”
Roots of Resistance: How Gen Z Indigenous Women Are Defending Their Heritage in Southeast Asia
A crowd of protesting Indian women. Licensed via Pixabay. Link copied! “Just this June, an 11-year-old Indigenous girl from the community was brutally raped.” The […]