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New York City, we’re back! | Join Us This Friday: How the Media Enables Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (opens the original)
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Pull up a chair, New York! Join us this Friday for this in-person event with Robin Andersen, author of The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, and Assal Rad, author of Don’t Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide, in conversation with South African activist-scholar A. Kayum Ahmed.This conversation will explore how consent for mass violence is produced through language and narrative, and what journalistic accountability might look like after Gaz
Join Us: Book Salon | India Out of Work | Santosh Mehrotra with Aabha Muralidaran | Sep 17 (opens the original)
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What happens when the jobs people need are not the jobs the economy is creating? What happens to workers when productive employment becomes increasingly uncertain? And what does this mean for the future of India’s demographic dividend?This Thursday, we’re relaunching our Book Salon series with economist Santosh Mehrotra, professor at the Centre for Labour at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Our contributing researcher Aabha Muralidharan will be in conversation with him about his new book, India Out
August at The Polis Project: A New Tool to Map India’s Legal Architecture (opens the original)
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Dear Readers,The world we inhabit can sometimes feel dark, brutish, and relentless: an endless accumulation of pain and misery, accompanied by constant doom-scrolling, can leave us with the sense that the worst of human existence is not only possible, but inevitable. That feeling is not entirely accidental.The Polis Project is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="su
Join Us: Mapping the Disappearance of Rights in India | August 14, Live Webinar (opens the original)
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What happens when hundreds of laws are viewed together instead of one at a time?On August 15, The Polis Project is launching the Legal Atlas. It uses legal forensics to map the erosion of rights. Thi… Read more
On the Ground from Delhi and Beyond: A Month of Resistance and Repression (opens the original)
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In the months following the end of Shaheen Bagh protests in 2020, many of us were left with a deep sense of unease. COVID-19 had forced the protest site to shut down, but more devastatingly, the Delh… Read more
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