Former Byzantine churches are being converted to mosques – this threatens Istanbul’s cosmopolitan identity
Converting Istanbul’s Byzantine churches implies a hierarchy prioritising the city’s Islamic past over all other periods.
Converting Istanbul’s Byzantine churches implies a hierarchy prioritising the city’s Islamic past over all other periods.
The official “race-blind” orientation of the French state is often perceived as an oddity by American observers. When it comes to understanding recent racialized conflicts on both sides of the Atlantic, however, it is important not to lose sight of important distinctions between the two countries that have a direct impact on how racial matters are managed and mobilized.
Fighting populism requires us to recognise its embeddedness in business elites. Viktor Orbán’s regime is a case in point.
Was it ‘automatic’ that deindustrialisation in northern English towns would lead to support for the populist politics which have brought us to Brexit? Suggestions on how cultural memories from Lancashire’s cotton mills mutated into nativist outlooks.
In January 2020, the ISRF launched its fourth Political Economy Research Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a selection panel met in July 2020 and nominated five projects for funding.
What would help 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests fix root problems? Lasting change will mean building non-police social institutions in anti-racist ways, with everyday democratic affect as a key ingredient.
In January 2020, the ISRF launched its fifth Mid-Career Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a selection panel met in July 2020 and nominated six projects for funding.
We are surrounded by objects, but it is in the context of our encounters that we make sense of them. With whom, when, and where we engage with an object can change its meaning and significance.
Why do we keep hearing about rags-to-riches stories of success? A lockdown binge-watcher ponders on success and talent in the cultural industries.
Distinguished Professor Christopher Newfield will be joining the ISRF as Director of Research in July 2020.
