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Research projects by friends

• Image & Peace: Frank Möller and Rasmus Bellmer have initiated a new project called Image & Peace which will publish selected works of visual art, both solicited and unsolicited, on the subject of peace.
• The Pad Project: The adult incontinence pad is a mundane commodity that is used, worn, and disposed of by hundreds of millions of people everyday across the world. Yet, very little is known about its circulation in the global economy – which is what the Pad Project seeks to understand.
• GotLost.Space: This website belongs to Nadine Hassouneh, currently a Research Fellow in Human Geography at the University of Leeds. The website serves as an archive to avoid loss of content in virtual space (thus gotlost.space) due to conclusion of projects, expiry of web hostings, new jobs, no space on CV, or anything else (imagined or unimagined).
• Debordering Peace: This project addresses focuses on the ongoing situation in the Mexican city of Tijuana. The Mexico-U.S. border is the place where different expressions of violence and peace take place having an impact on all the identities involved in the area. The aim of this project is to study the entanglement between expressions of conflict and epistemic violence with expressions of everyday peace taking place at the border. Specifically, the objective is to analyze everyday expressions of conflict and peace embedded in discourses, identities and representations about the others. The everyday expressions are examined by collating three research tracks combining an ethnographic perspective with discursive and visual approaches. The research tracks complement and triangulate data (interviews, media reports & images), with different sources of information. Each track provides a specific angle and context to the everyday entanglements of violence and peace at the limit. The project has a conceptual frame based on the field of Peace and Conflict Research. The methods considered will be ethnographic participant observations, photo elicitation, open interviews, content analysis, and visual discursive analysis. The contribution of this project is to shed light and uncover the entanglement of violence and peace happening in the actual context of Tijuana and show to the ways expressions of peace can be permanently fostered.

Interesting Podcasts

• Rethinking Palestine: Rethinking Palestine is a podcast from Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, a transnational think tank that aims to foster public debate on Palestinian human rights and self-determination. They draw upon the vast knowledge and experience of the Palestinian people, whether in Palestine or in exile, to put forward strong and diverse Palestinian policy voices. In this podcast, they bring these voices to you so that you can listen to Palestinians sharing their analysis wherever you are in the world.
• Behind the Bastards: There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
• Audible Anarchism: Audible Anarchist is a group of volunteers making audio book versions of texts thought to be useful for the development of Anarchism and education.