By Adam Kinnwall The migrant crisis of 2015 caused many EU countries to re-introduce border controls. This effectively disrupted the Schengen-zone agreement and put a dent in the EU’s pillar of freedom of movement. To resolve this issue the EU initiated the so-called externalization of the Schengen border, which aims…
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Av Frida Ingemarsson I mikronationen och Furstendömet Lorenzburg härskar Hans Serena Höghet Prins Freï von Fräähsen. Vid sidan av sitt prinsämbete arbetar han med konstprojekt om individens suveräna rätt till sin egen berättelse och identitet. – Landet befinner sig i lekdimensionen – i dimensionen ”det var en gång”, förklarar Prinsen.…
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By John Gillespie A Starbucks ‘Venti’ chai tea latte contains a bewildering 52.7g grams of sugar, yet the story of Starbucks has not always been so sweet. While global revenues run into the billions, through shifting company profits Starbucks had (until 2012) managed to reduce its corporate income tax liability…
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Av Fredrik Nilsson Nationsgränser ses som en fundamental del av världen vi lever i och de påverkar våra liv dagligen. Många tillbringar hela sina liv inom en stats gränser, och gränsdragningar mellan nationer uppfattas som något naturligt. Det är därför viktigt att lyfta fram de fåtal gränslösa och ofta förbisedda…
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By Baptiste Marecaille The Tuareg are a people whose existence in the Saharan desert goes back to the birth of civilisation. Their culture, largely dependent on borderless, nomadic migration, has increasingly come under threat, subject to the violent political dynamics of the surrounding states. As the Malian government struggles to…
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By Joe di Trapani On June 16th 2016, images emerged of the then UKIP (UK Independence party) leader, and a figurehead of the Vote Leave campaign, Nigel Farage in front of a billboard. A caption: ‘BREAKING POINT: The EU has failed us all‘ was plastered over an image of a…
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By Karen Ramirez and Simon Dürr Political parties have been redrawing voting districts to maintain political power ever since the US was founded, but gerrymandering, as this practice is called, has recently been under heightened scrutiny due to its increasing impact on US electoral results. The rising sophistication and success of…
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By Shanti Louise Grafström Many times on social media I have seen that picture of two babies hugging, one black and one white, over a caption that reads ‘No one is born racist’. It is true. Just as there are no naturally occurring national borders etched onto the Earth’s surface,…
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Av Per Kåks Hur städers utformning skapar osynliga gränser mellan människor har under de senaste åren fått allt mer medial uppmärksamhet. Ofta hamnar fokus på det som kallas exkluderande design – när offentliga utrymmen utformas för att hålla oönskade beteenden eller personer borta. Detta kan vara i form av att…
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Av Gustav Elfving Texten är baserad på en intervju med Sayid, student vid Uppsala universitet, som 2015 flydde från Syrien till Sverige. Sayid heter egentligen något annat. Yeni Raki-flaskan var nästan tom när kaptenen ropade att det var dags att börja röra på sig. Flaskan skickades runt ett sista varv…
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