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In Europe, the concept of “summer” feels almost like a fundamental right. For several weeks, shops close up and cities empty out as workers and families undertake their annual traditions of checking out from everyday life.

Soaring temperatures, spreading wildfires, and high-season prices do not appear to have changed this pattern much. It’s as if capitalism itself downshifts to a less oppressive mode of operation in this season—its neoliberal impulses dulled by ocean tides and mountain air.

Yet those structures are never far away. In the Mediterranean, they help determine who sinks and who swims; from the Balkans and across the Schengen Area, they police borders and movement across them.

Everyone should enjoy well-deserved time off, without forgetting who gets to be off and why—and what “off” even means.

That’s why, before you disappear till September, Shada, Emmanuel, and William send you packing with our favorite books. These are stories and histories of resilience, resistance, and remembrance. We hope they fill you with inspiration and good ideas to bring back with you.

We’d love to hear what you think of them and share your favorite books with us!

Until then, have a great and meaningful summer with the people who matter most to you.

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Join us as we confront the imperial core with its multifaceted peripheries. And remember: Solidarity means moving through the world together, so be sure to share us with an ally or two—or someone needs a little nudge to become one.

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Shada, Emmanuel, and William are back! If you liked our pilot episode, you will really enjoy this one. Together, we connect contemporary policing in Europe to its colonial continuities, anti-immigrant politics, and the securitization of everything that seems to have no end.

Repression of pro-Palestinian activism is only the tip of the imperial iceberg. Anyone who contests the status quo of state power—climate campaigners, workers, artists—risks facing its wrath.

The problems aren’t individual. They’re structural. That means the solutions need to be, too.

Ultimately, we ask: Can the European “peace project” be truly democratic when wedded to a capitalist system of extraction, subjugation, and racialized control?

To get all our episodes right away and for free, don’t forget to subscribe!

Join us as we confront the imperial core with its multifaceted peripheries. And remember: Solidarity means moving through the world together, so be sure to share us with an ally or two—or someone who could become one with a little nudge.

Don’t miss us on Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.

NB: Transcripts are auto-generated and subject to errors.

Greetings! Where else to begin this new podcast series than in the beginning?

Shada, Emmanuel, and William trace their divergent yet overlapping paths to “Europe”—a place and an idea that can be difficult to define, except to say that you know it when you see it.

Our experiences and trajectories are neither individual nor accidental. They reflect larger social structures: products of racial hierarchies, colonial continuities, and (geo)political power dynamics. The European Union likes to think it’s beyond all that, when in fact it is built on and replicates these very logics.

How we are simultaneously agents of and subjects to them—and how we can resist them to imagine new possibilities of organizing human life—is the subject of this podcast.

To get all our episodes right away and for free, don’t forget to subscribe!

Join us as we confront the imperial core with its multifaceted peripheries. And remember: Solidarity means moving through the world together, so be sure to share us with an ally or two!

Don’t miss us on Instagram, YouTube, and Spotify.

NB: Transcripts are auto-generated and subject to errors.