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Springboards Before the Fence: Urban Makeshift Camps as Mobility Infrastructures on the Bosnia–Croatia Border

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract This paper frames migrant makeshift camps as mobility infrastructures, bridging scholarship on informal dwellings and migration infrastructures with the case of Bihać, a transit city on the Bosnia–Croatia border. The central idea is that grassroots makeshift camps assembled in abandoned buildings or tents play a key infrastructural role in ...
Martino Zibetti (He/Him)
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The Production of Everyday Carcerality in State‐Led Redevelopment of Informal Settlement in Delhi, India

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract This paper focuses on the everyday experiences of carcerality of a community, known as Kathputli Colony, that has been waiting to be rehoused by the state for over a decade in Delhi, India. We draw on Kathputli Colony's everyday experiences to argue that state‐led housing policies and practices produce carceral socio‐spatialities, rather than ...
Syeda Jenifa Zahan, Rajarshee Narayan Chowdhury   +1 more
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Pure‐istan: Gender and Genocide in Pakistan

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ongoing genocidal violence against the Baloch nation. It highlights how the Pakistani state has weaponized Islamic doctrine to construct a vision of a homogenized, “purer, more Islamic state” that excludes and others those deemed incompatible with its vision of purity. This logic of purification is deeply gendered.
Bramsh Khan
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

Area, Volume 58, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
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Land of cemetery: funereal images in the poetry of Musa Idris Okpanachi

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
This paper focuses on Musa Idris Okpanachi’s poetry: The Eaters of the Living (2007), From the Margins of Paradise (2012), and Music of the Dead (2016).
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike
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Bottled Water and the Social Sciences: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Social sciences approach the steady rise of bottled water consumption at the beginning of the 21st century from four analytical vantage points: political economy, semiotics and lifestyle, political ecology, and materiality‐centered. Each analytic has crucial methodological and conceptual contributions to make, as well as zones of potential ...
Liviu Chelcea
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Multiple Frames: Remarks on the Framing of Borders and Migration

On_Culture
This _Essay attempts a preliminary framing of what we can understand by the work of ‘framing’ in the context of borders and migration and its inherent tensions.
Heidrun Friese
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Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro‐periurbanisation in Brazil

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract This paper examines how peri‐urban spaces are governed through concealment and obfuscation. Focusing on the Baixada Fluminense near Rio de Janeiro, it connects land fraud (‘grilagem’) to the obfuscation of violence, proposing the concept of ‘accumulation by disappearance’.
Jan Simon Hutta
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From Necropower to Earthly Care: Rethinking Environmental Crisis through Achille Mbembe

Open Philosophy
This article critically engages with Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics to reframe the environmental crisis as a political and ethical issue rooted in colonial violence, extractive capitalism, and global structures of power.
Mpassi Alphée C. S.
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Perpetuating Civil Martyrdom: Exploring Erdoğan’s National Addresses on Historical Events

Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics
The piece of research investigates Turkish President Erdoğan’s addresses to the nation between 2014-2020, focusing on how they reflect a necropolitical populist style.
Kalina Ishpekova-Bratanova
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