Category: Articles
Cranes, Capital and Coercion: The Dark Side of Belgrade’s Real Estate Boom
Belgrade’s housing market has lurched from one shock to another in recent years. Property prices began increasing during the Covid-19 pandemic, then soared in 2022 […]
What Does Jared Kushner’s Luxury Project Have to Do With the Albanian Mafia and Transatlantic Cocaine Trade?
In January 2019, a group of Albanian businessmen and intermediaries, as revealed by BIRN Albania’s investigative reports, gathered on the idyllic Caribbean island of Aruba. […]
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
Every afternoon around four o’clock, Mr. Huang lowers himself carefully into the same worn armchair beside the window of his nursing home in Hangzhou, a […]
“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
The road was no longer safe, but duty pressed her to try once more. For four years, Jihan Hanan had taken that forty‑kilometer stretch of […]