Recent European migratory policies and practices are determined to push people back out of Europe. How do activists use international solidarity to combat this in Marseille?
City activists across Europe have thrown beach parties against France’s burkini ban and the abuse of laïcité as a justification for the crackdown.
Listening to these women is unnecessary; the country of the Rights of Man knows best what's best for them.
The woman on the beach in her human quest to be visible, had the grace, understandably, to be bewildered. A large swathe of your citizens are bewildered, France. The world is bewildered, France.
Reduced to symbols of national identity, women are caught in the center of a tug-of-war in which any amount of violence, of coercion and regulation of their bodies is justified in order to win the battle.
Unless we are willing to live with the discomfort of what is different and challenging, we are inviting a world of needless incivilities and lack of understanding.
Where are Durkheim and Bourdieu when we need them?
Nice’s promenade follows on a long string of attacks against the dense and the banal: against the overlooked ordinary that comprises our daily existence.
The harsh Roman response to the Carthage problem is not adequate to address the threat of terrorist groups in this era.
We have reached a turning point with an uncertain outcome, in which the British and European dimensions are two sides of the same coin.
This erasure by journalists and politicians has highlighted the lasting homophobia of French society. It served also as a reminder of how fragile the tenuous progress made for gay rights is.
