Field Notes
Letter from the Netherlands:
“We Refugees are Like Chemical Waste”
By Nick Vos
In the camps on islands like Lesbos and Kos, on the Macedonian border, the stench of shit and dirty clothes grows stronger; the mud of the winter and spring months has changed into dusty fields.
From Welcome to Farewell:
Germany, the refugee crisis and the global surplus proletariat
By Felix Baum
In the summer of 2015, almost overnight, Angela Merkel transmuted in international public perception from a brutal whip of austerity policies, relentlessly squeezing already impoverished populations in the crisis-ridden South of the European Union, to the last defender of the humanist values Europe likes to take pride in.
White, Rural, and Poor:
On the Politics of Non-Identity
By Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
On a humid day in the summer of 2010, amidst the lingering fallout from the financial crisis, I entered New York’s Penn Station and boarded a train headed for northwest Ohio.
After Being Up All Night, We Wake up with a Political Strike1
by Charles Reeve, translated from the French by Janet KoenigLiving in a moment is always pleasanter than writing about it— it’s always risky to draw conclusions about situations still evolving or to speculate about what they will become. For over three months, Nuit debout (“Up All Night”) has been a new kind of spontaneous social movement along the lines of Occupy and Spain’s M15 movement.
