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On Injustice and Development: Seven Days of Resistance in Erdoğan’s Turkey

Thursday, June 13, Ankara I am waiting through an intense thunderstorm outside, periodically reading facebook posts from my students gathered in Ankara’s Kuğulu (Swan) Park, which has been the capital’s version of Istanbul’s Gezi Park, and from some at Gezi Park itself.  Erdoğan has announced that “this will be over within 24 hours” and has […]

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Nor entities nor identities

Luka Čuljak and Jasna Kovo As this text is being written, as far as we know, a mass protest for June 18, 2013 is being organized. On June 13, 2013, Berina Hamidović, a three-month-old infant, died. She was a baby who did not have an ID number, and became a victim of the administration. Her […]

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From Rivers to Babies: Civic Awakenings Aim to Secure the Future of Bosnia-Herzegovina for all Bosnians

by Maria Hetman on Sunday, June 16, 2013 Thursday, June 6, 2013. An early summer day in Sarajevo, and the streets were filled with sound. Listening closer, it was not just the usual buzz of warm weather foot traffic and outdoor cafe crowds. Instead, there were whistles, drums, vuvuzelas, shouting, and a cacophony of car […]