Photo: Siena, Piazza del Campo 13 August 2026, first day of Palio. ©Maria, author’s cousin. Mid-August: some lazy thoughts from my sofa.“What if, in Siena, it didn’t stop raining until Christmas Eve? Would the Palio1 be run on Christmas Day?”
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Photo: Siena, Piazza del Campo 13 August 2026, first day of Palio. ©Maria, author’s cousin. Mid-August: some lazy thoughts from my sofa.“What if, in Siena, it didn’t stop raining until Christmas Eve? Would the Palio1 be run on Christmas Day?”…
IntroductionOccupied Jerusalem is often narrated through maps, military operations, diplomatic failures, or religious contestation (Qadir and Smith, 2025). We are told stories of borders, security, sovereignty, and conflict. Rarely are we invited into the quieter, stubborn realities of survival, the…
Photo by Rana GöksuGeo-Materializing the Legal Imaginary: The Cycle of Produced and Producing Geography examines how land once rendered ‘null’ was later claimed as ‘full’, and how these transformations continue to shape our imaginaries on political authority, identity, societal organization, governing…
The Godfather, The Sopranos, The Irishman, Scarface, Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco, Gomorrah, A Tale, Once Upon a Time in America, and, closer to home, Legend, taught many of us how to imagine organised crime before we ever read a court judgment. They have given us dark restaurants, family dinners,…
Photo by Haim Charbit on UnsplashAt the end of June 2026 much of Europe experienced its highest recorded temperatures since the 1950s. Cities like Paris approached 41°C, and large parts of the continent were placed under the highest red…
Crop of Laszlo moholy-nagy, composizione A.XX, 1924 | Sailko, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law1Act…
Jessica WhyteAdania Shibli, Minor Detail. Trans. Elisabeth Jaquette. (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020)Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail is a novel made of two stories of violence and domination, separated by more than six decades. In the first, set during the Palestinian Nakba, a terrible crime is committed…
Konštantín Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsCLT recently featured a translation of E.B. Pashukanis’ 1929 article “The Right of Asylum and the Practice of Bourgeois Governments,” originally published in the journal MOPR under the auspices of the International Red Aid (IRA). There…
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