Posts by Ruth Jahn:
Lima's new cooking pot
Lima is considered the gastronomic capital of South America. Cooking and eating have always been national passions in Peru, but the country’s culinary boom invokes a number of issues that go well beyond the simple cooking pot and involve society, economy, and politics. As the story of Maria shows…
Academics' call for peace in Turkey: from "going public" to "getting persecuted"
Supported by hundreds of international colleagues like Judith Butler, David Harvey and Noam Chomsky, in Turkey, more than 1300 academics have signed a petition calling for an end to the violence in the Southeast. Now Turkish prosecutors have started to investigate these academics.
Submit a picture story and win a spot in a two-day multimedia storytelling workshop with Transformations
You have many stories to tell, but you don’t quite know how? Send us a picture and an accompanying story and win a spot in a two-day workshop on multimedia storytelling held in Munich, 23-24 October, 2015.
"movements": New multi-lingual and open access journal on migration and borders.
Out now a first issue on the European border regime. Critical and good read!
Don't let them drown!
“Many people have died, some people fainted, we ran out of water and we ran out of food. Also we ran out of petrol. We ran out of everything, we were hopeless in the sea, the wind was just taking us from one point to the other.” This story of Sunday, a refugee from Nigeria, is one of the many ones I’ve heard while working in Malta—an island swallowing human lives in the name of immigration controls.