How do we create strategies of political action that would ameliorate the effects of precarity and improve labor conditions? How do we navigate these disciplinary …
Euthanasia as a Dutch neoliberal success story
Euthanasia as a Dutch neoliberal success story In 2014, the phrase “completed life” was introduced to the Dutch mainstream through quite extensive reports and subsequent …
Why I do not support the European Parliament recommendations on undocumented women migrants
I will start by doing something that I usually steer clear from which is to “explain” the European Union in a couple of sentences. This …
American Dutch comedian turned “politician” Gregory Shapiro delights us with hipster Islamophobia
Hipster racism, a term coined around 2006 in an article by Carmen Van Kerckhove, is described as the use of irony and satire to mask …
The language of solidarity
Lately I have noticed something I hadn’t seen before: on social media people using the expression “show solidarity” with a cause/group/individual, etc. Much has been …