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Jorge Varela, Peter Libbey, George Tomlinson, Jussi Palmusaari, Peter Nyers, John Douglas Millar, Allan Stoekl and Onur Acaroglu ~ RP 199 (Sept/Oct 2016) ~ Reviews

The reversal of authority Alexandre Kojève, The Notion of Authority (A Brief Presentation), trans. Hager Weslati, Verso, London and New York, 2014. xxxiv + 107 pp., £14.99 hb., 978 1 78168 095 7. Since the publication of Arendt’s essays on authority, the debate around authority has been mostly dominated by her diagnoses of its crisis. […]

The politics of counting and the scene of rescue: Border deaths in the Mediterranean

Martina Tazzioli ~ RP 192 (July/Aug 2015), pp. 2–6 ~ Commentary

Border deaths are not a new phenomenon. Since the early 2000s, the Mediterranean Sea has been named a ‘maritime cemetery’ by activists1 and critical migration scholars. However, over the last two years migrant deaths at the borders have gained more and more attention in the media and EU political debate after two deadly shipwrecks near […]