topic: resistance

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
July 24, 2019
Excerpted from the book with permission from the publisher. On 4 August 1857, some three months after the commencement of the insurgency in...
videos
Releasing gene drive mosquitos in Burkina Faso requires local consent
December 19, 2018
Target Malaria’s planned release of gene drive mosquitoes in parts of Burkina Faso is a high-risk technology aimed at the elimination of...
Reportage
Boy with a Mustard Shirt
June 4, 2018
"I lay between the soldier's big boots, and he took out his knife...He raised the knife with his two hands high over his head and plunged...
Opinion
A Century in Defiance
November 28, 2016
It has been 141 days since Kashmiris have stood up, most recently, against the tyranny of the Indian occupation in Kashmir. We have faced...
Opinion
Why Americans must change the conversation about Syria
August 25, 2015
This past week, Al Jazeera Plus uploaded a video on Facebook featuring producers Sana Saeed and Tarek Abu-Esber entitled “Is the US at war...
blog
Judith Butler speaks about Vulnerability and Resistance
February 16, 2015
Building on the work of her previous books Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence (2004), and Frames of War: When is Life...
Poetry
Letter to the Americans
August 11, 2014
You know as well as I do that a people under occupation will be unhappy, that parents will fear for the lives of their precious children,...
Art
Resistance in a Country That Does Not Exist
February 18, 2014
In the year 1900, when the phantoms of the nineteenth century were still controlling the destiny of Honduras, Juan Ramón Molina (1876-1908...