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Review of How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics
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The rightward turn in America’s postindustrial regions shows the role of place in partisan allegiance.
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New Urban Dispositions: A Review of Cities Rethought
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A new book reimagines cities not as static entities but as fluid, dynamic spaces with possibilities to collectively address global crises.
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When War and Nature Collide in Ukraine
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Russia’s invasion also represents an ecological catastrophe, depriving flora and fauna alongside human victims. Restoration may take lifetimes.
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Singapore’s ‘Invisible’ Population: The Perpetual ‘Homelessness’ of Migrant Workers
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Singapore’s pristine cityscape and reputation as a futuristic utopia is built on the labour of an ‘invisible’ workforce.
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Double Agents? How Immigrant-Origin Teens Find Belonging
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Immigrant-origin teens make friends at high rates, casting doubt on the notion that multiculturalism must be divisive.
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Space Predestined to Demise: The Making and Falling of Fragile Homes in the Calais ‘Jungle’
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The efforts of refugees in Calais to carve out spaces of memory, survival, and resistance is just defiance against expulsion and violence.
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To Live Under the Gathering Storm
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The fates of two Japanese figures with pre-WW2 connections to the US reveals much about today’s geopolitical rivalries.
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Nations without States: Catalonia’s Struggle for Recognition
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Spain’s Constitution does not see Catalonia’s nationhood. To resolve nationalist tensions, a complete reimagining of the nation is needed.
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Protected Land, Lost Homes: How China’s Farmland Protection Policies Lead to Rural Dispossession
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‘The strictest land-management system in the world’ has fueled massive growth at the expense of rural communities.
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Home Is Where the Trauma Is: Artistic Explorations of Generational Trauma
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Questions of German identity and the memories of the Holocaust intersect in Spiegelman’s Maus.