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  • An oil painting showing the expansion of colonial settlers over the North American plains, with a large figure of a blonde woman floating over the top, representing the colonial concept of Manifest Destiny

    Settler Colonialism – review

    Sai Englart’s book is an invaluable examination of settler colonialism as an ongoing force shaping our modern world, writes Matthew Lee

  • Spanish dictator walking alongside military colleagues in the Spanish city of Burgos in 1936

    From colonialism to fascism: A history of Spain’s elite forces

    Uma Arruga i López explains how the violence used by Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War was shaped by their earlier colonial endeavours.

  • A US deaper drone flying over Southern Afghanistan

    Bodies and bombs in Peshawar

    Sanaa Alimia examines how repeatedly witnessing the body being ‘unmade’ in bomb blasts results in a sustained and collective trauma

  • The image depicts an Israeli border crossing checkpoint with high barbed wire and a central look out tower

    Inside the Israeli panopticon

    Israeli surveillance is used to crush Palestinian resistance and their model is being exported across the globe, explains Dr. Yara Hawari

  • A protestor wearing a pig nose confronts Metropolitan police officers wearing high vis jackets.

    The colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police

    The Met’s institutional racism is inevitable given its key inspiration: the policing model used to quell Irish anti-colonial resistance, argues Kate Bermingham

  • A line of people with clothes pulled up above the knees wade through brown floodwater

    The colonial origins of Pakistan’s floods

    The interests of western imperialism and allied local elites have combined to exacerbate the scale and impact of Pakistan’s floods, writes Shozab Raza

  • Landscape image showing mountains in the background and a lush green forest in the foreground

    The movement to save Virunga National Park

    A beloved national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo is facing devastating oil exploitation. Pascal Mirindi tells Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya about the local resistance movement

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