Reviewed by Julie Sedivy
Encountering the world’s lesser-known languages reveals radically unfamiliar modes of expressing human experiences.
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By Majbritt Lyck-Bowen
The foundations for Goda Grannar were laid when a Christian pastor from the Södermalm congregation knocked on the door of the local mosque and asked if any assistance was needed to serve people who had fled from war and poverty and arrived at Stockholm’s central train station.
Reviewed by Prudence Gibson
The entanglement of humans and plants is part of a developing concept I have termed “dark botany,” which entails critically engaging with the violence and extractivism of botanical history.
By the EuropeNow Editorial Committee
Here is this month’s editor’s pick from Research Editorial Committee members Edina Paleviq, Aslihan Turan, and Nicholas Ostrum.
Interviewed by Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Sam Cavagnolo, and Arlene Chen
Secular and religious organizations should partner in the resettlement system.
Translated by Tess Lewis
Everything breaks, everything becomes wrinkled,
everything is defeated,
we are born to see others fall and bleed,
he flatters who calls us wisps,
but as I crumble, I will make daylight reign.
Interviewed by Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Janus Wong, and Sam Cavagnolo
The program directors discuss the origins and trajectories of their pedagogical initiatives, key points of comparison between Switzerland and Malaysia as sites of research and teaching, and the ongoing impacts they have observed coming out of this work.
By Nicholas Ostrum
EuropeNow features a selection of scholarly material on topics pertinent to the teaching of Europe or teaching in Europe.
Reviewed by Henry Carey
The central claim of the book is that although public discourse, rhetoric, and other arguments articulated by leaders, mass media pundits, and policy makers have increasingly restricted the human rights and opportunities of migrants, refugees, and diasporic communities, these groups are not immobile victims of these newly expressed policies.
