A Special Feature on Governing the Migration Crisis Introduction by Jennifer Elrick, Oliver Schmidtke, and Nicole Shea Research “Comparing Europe’s Recent Reaction to Boat Refugees Across Time and Space” by Irial Glynn “What Prospects for Change to Achieve a Sustainable EU Migration Policy?” by Elif Çetin “At the Mercy of Global Interests: Reflections on Nativism and Conspiratorialism in Italy” by Antonio Sorge “Notions of Solidarity in Europe’s Migration Crisis: The Case of Germany’s Media Discourse”
Mirza Purić
Translated by Mirza Purić
Tell me!
between sleeplessness and dreamlessness
are the steps too tall too tight for the feet
swollen from roaming and do the eyeballs swell
from crossing gazes eye over eye
A Special Feature on Tourism: People, Places & Mobilities Introduction by Hélène B. Ducros and Katrine Øgaard Jensen Research “A Transnational Place-based Label for the ‘Glocal Village’” by Hélène B. Ducros “Europe and Island Tourism” by Godfrey Baldacchino “Moroccan Roads that Start in Europe: ‘insha’allah’ Timespaces of Summer Holidays” by Lauren Wagner “Places with a Disconcerting Past: Issues and Trends in Holocaust Tourism” by Rudi Hartmann “Part-time Work, Full-time Commitment: Casualization of Employment in the Irish Hospitality Sector”
Translated by Mirza Purić
All the pain we inflicted on our mother began with our birth. We hurt her when we were being born, and we hurt her by being born. Why people come uninvited, she never understood. She invited her first husband into her life. Me she didn’t invite.
Translated by Mirza Purić
The three frozen fingers on her hand
were like knives in my kneecaps.
Special Feature: Sustainability & Innovation Introduction by Maria Höhn and Nicole Shea Research “Actually, Architecture Can Play Well With Others” by Tobias Armborst “The Vision and Practice of Biophilic Cities” by Tim Beatley “From Interinstitutional Competition to Interinstitutional Collaboration” by Stéphane Charitos, Christopher Kaiser, and Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl Commentary “Reading Turgenev in a Time of Terror” by Morten Høi Jensen “Collaboration in Refugee Education: Field Notes from Bard College Berlin” by Kerry Bystrom with Marion Detjen “Encircling the Now”
Translated by Mirza Purić
for breakfast I’ve had
a small coniferous forest
and in it a squirrel
I pressed him on a serviette
stored him between two leaves of newspaper
By Hélène B. Ducros
Our global dependence on fossil fuels, nuclear power, intense resource extraction economies, genetic manipulations, air, soil, and water contamination, and byproducts of modernity such as waste material like plastics and other synthetic polymers have caused great disturbances in the Earth ecosystems on which many species depend, including the human species.
Special Feature: Facing the Anthropocene Introduction by Hélène B. Ducros and Katrine Øgaard Jensen Research “Commercial Agriculture and the Landscape of Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Greece” by David Idol “Fieldnotes from Svalbard: How Global Dreamings Take Root in the Arctic Frontier” by Tracey Heatherington and Bernard C. Perley “The world’s First Meteorological Network (1654-1670) and Experimental Scientific Society (1657-1667), and the invention of the Little Florentine Thermometer” by Chiara Bertolin and Dario Camuffo Poetry Four Poems and Visuals from Astroecology by Johannes
By Katrine Øgaard Jensen and Mirza Purić
This month’s special feature investigates how language, lyrics, poetics, and politics speak to and push against each other in a politically charged climate, which to many Europeans echoes eerily of a not-too-distant past