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Can you hear the drumming? On Kathmandu’s Sonic Cartographies of Protest, a powerful new essay by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi on Gen Z protests in Nepal.
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Sonic Cartographies of Protest: Kathmandu 2025
In early September 2025, Kathmandu became an acoustic map of dissent. The government’s suspension of 26 social media platforms on 4 September set the tone for the weeks that followed. Streets that …
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November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Can you hear the drumming? On Kathmandu’s Sonic Cartographies of Protest, a powerful new essay by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi on Gen Z protests in Nepal.
helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/11/03/s...
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Can you hear the drumming? On Kathmandu’s Sonic Cartographies of Protest, a powerful new essay by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi on Gen Z protests in Nepal.
helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/11/03/s...
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Sonic Cartographies of Protest: Kathmandu 2025
In early September 2025, Kathmandu became an acoustic map of dissent. The government’s suspension of 26 social media platforms on 4 September set the tone for the weeks that followed. Streets that …
helsinkinotebooks.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Can you hear the drumming? On Kathmandu’s Sonic Cartographies of Protest, a powerful new essay by Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi on Gen Z protests in Nepal.
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In our latest essay, Andrés Brink Pinto (Lund University) discusses the differences between antifascist and fascist masculinity and their complex relations to violence. #antifa #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/10/15/m...
Masculinity: A Useful Concept to Understand Fascism and Anti-fascism - The Helsinki notebooks
Fascism, as a political movement, is deeply fixated on preserving the traditional gender order – a structure that its defenders view as both natural and perpetually under siege. This perceived fragili...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In our latest essay, Andrés Brink Pinto (Lund University) discusses the differences between antifascist and fascist masculinity and their complex relations to violence. #antifa #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/10/15/m...
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#CFP for Vol. 2 of "The Helsinki Notebooks" (ISSN 2984-5343): We publish essays that connect the histories of fascism and colonialism / antifascism, anti-colonialism or antiracism. Follow @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social and check the THN-website for more information: helsinkinotebooks.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
#CFP for Vol. 2 of "The Helsinki Notebooks" (ISSN 2984-5343): We publish essays that connect the histories of fascism and colonialism / antifascism, anti-colonialism or antiracism. Follow @helsinkinotebooks.bsky.social and check the THN-website for more information: helsinkinotebooks.com
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Walter Gam Nkwi's new important essay on Cameroon’s violent genealogy and how it reveals fascism as not confined to Europe, but as embedded in colonial mechanisms: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/09/15/t...
Tracing the Proto-Fascist Origins of Conflict in Cameroon
Cameroon’s Violent Legacy On February 14, 2020, local security forces attacked the village of Ngarbuh in North-West Region of Cameroon, killing at least 21 civilians, including 13 ch…
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September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Walter Gam Nkwi's new important essay on Cameroon’s violent genealogy and how it reveals fascism as not confined to Europe, but as embedded in colonial mechanisms: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/09/15/t...
Walter Gam Nkwi's new important essay on Cameroon’s violent genealogy and how it reveals fascism as not confined to Europe, but as embedded in colonial mechanisms: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/09/15/t...
Tracing the Proto-Fascist Origins of Conflict in Cameroon
Cameroon’s Violent Legacy On February 14, 2020, local security forces attacked the village of Ngarbuh in North-West Region of Cameroon, killing at least 21 civilians, including 13 ch…
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September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Walter Gam Nkwi's new important essay on Cameroon’s violent genealogy and how it reveals fascism as not confined to Europe, but as embedded in colonial mechanisms: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/09/15/t...
To the children of #Gaza - a powerful new poem by Ncebakazi Makwetu, published in the new "Visions" Series of The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/29/t...
The Children of Gaza – Night Skies
The night sky lights up with stars and timeless lullabies for children in South Africa.Palestinian children no longer see the gentleness of the moon. Only the glow of blood born of massive bombs Mo…
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September 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To the children of #Gaza - a powerful new poem by Ncebakazi Makwetu, published in the new "Visions" Series of The Helsinki Notebooks: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/29/t...
A must-read for anyone interested in the memory battles in post-communist Europe. The case of Poland, presented by Jan Bobrowski and Grzegorz Piotrowski: #memorystudies helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/04/r...
Reclaiming the Dąbrowszczacy: Memory Battles and Antifascism in Post-Communist Poland
Between 1936 and 1939, thousands of foreign volunteers travelled to Spain to fight against fascism. Among them were nearly 5,000 Polish combatants who joined the 13th International Brigade. They we…
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August 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A must-read for anyone interested in the memory battles in post-communist Europe. The case of Poland, presented by Jan Bobrowski and Grzegorz Piotrowski: #memorystudies helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/08/04/r...
Lazaros Karavasilis is the latest contributor to The Helsinki Notebooks. An important essay on the left-wing progressive potential of populism: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/07/15/p...
Populism Is Not Fascism: Here Is How Antifascist Movements Can Benefit From That Distinction
It has become almost redundant to talk about the fluid nature of the populism concept and the buzzword-like label it has gained over the past two decades. Indeed, when discussing populism in the ac…
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July 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Lazaros Karavasilis is the latest contributor to The Helsinki Notebooks. An important essay on the left-wing progressive potential of populism: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/07/15/p...
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For those on the fence: Sofia Kankaanpää's THN essay offers a critical look at why many people are struggling to identify themselves as anti-fascist. "Navigating the Fascist Creep: Strategic Anti-Fascism in an Era of Political Confusion" helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/07/01/n...
Navigating the Fascist Creep: Strategic Anti-Fascism in an Era of Political Confusion
In response to the civil disobedience that erupted across US cities following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, President Donald Trump defiantly asserted that, “it is essential that we pro…
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July 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
For those on the fence: Sofia Kankaanpää's THN essay offers a critical look at why many people are struggling to identify themselves as anti-fascist. "Navigating the Fascist Creep: Strategic Anti-Fascism in an Era of Political Confusion" helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/07/01/n...
For those on the fence: Sofia Kankaanpää's THN essay offers a critical look at why many people are struggling to identify themselves as anti-fascist. "Navigating the Fascist Creep: Strategic Anti-Fascism in an Era of Political Confusion" helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/07/01/n...
Navigating the Fascist Creep: Strategic Anti-Fascism in an Era of Political Confusion
In response to the civil disobedience that erupted across US cities following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, President Donald Trump defiantly asserted that, “it is essential that we pro…
helsinkinotebooks.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
For those on the fence: Sofia Kankaanpää's THN essay offers a critical look at why many people are struggling to identify themselves as anti-fascist. "Navigating the Fascist Creep: Strategic Anti-Fascism in an Era of Political Confusion" helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/07/01/n...
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On fascism from Timothy Snyder.
June 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
On fascism from Timothy Snyder.
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Edited volume forthcoming! Stay tuned if you want to read about how fascism has been challenged in urban spaces and how the anti-fascist city of the future can be created👇
What is an "Anti-Fascist City"? In early June, the LGP-project organised an international conference in Helsinki to discuss people's right to the city and how to challenge fascism. Read our report to get a quick overview of this thought provoking event: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/06/16/n...
Notes on the Imagining the Anti-Fascist City Conference
On July 5-6, 2025, we hosted participants from around the world for the ‘Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference!’. Scholars, researchers, com…
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June 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Edited volume forthcoming! Stay tuned if you want to read about how fascism has been challenged in urban spaces and how the anti-fascist city of the future can be created👇
What is an "Anti-Fascist City"? In early June, the LGP-project organised an international conference in Helsinki to discuss people's right to the city and how to challenge fascism. Read our report to get a quick overview of this thought provoking event: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/06/16/n...
Notes on the Imagining the Anti-Fascist City Conference
On July 5-6, 2025, we hosted participants from around the world for the ‘Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference!’. Scholars, researchers, com…
helsinkinotebooks.com
June 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
What is an "Anti-Fascist City"? In early June, the LGP-project organised an international conference in Helsinki to discuss people's right to the city and how to challenge fascism. Read our report to get a quick overview of this thought provoking event: helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/06/16/n...
In our latest essay, Dr. Diana I. Popescu (Birkbeck) writes on how Jewish artists confronted fascism through art in Britain and the USA in the mid 20th century. They still represent a vital resource for the historical portrayal of Nazi era perpetrators.
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Visual Resistance: How Jewish Artists Confronted Fascism Through Art in Britain and the United States
Amid the horrors of fascism and genocide, Jewish artists forged a powerful form of resistance through visual art. Their works did not mythologize or glorify Nazi perpetrators; rather, they delivere…
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June 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In our latest essay, Dr. Diana I. Popescu (Birkbeck) writes on how Jewish artists confronted fascism through art in Britain and the USA in the mid 20th century. They still represent a vital resource for the historical portrayal of Nazi era perpetrators.
helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/06/02/v...
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Read our latest essay by Yanee Dewoo on "Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance" / Amid the shadows of resurgent fascism in 2025, this truth beckons us to seize language too – to wield it as a flame to light our own battles. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/01/l...
Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance
Language, in its many forms, semantics, and phonetics, plays a fundamental role in human interaction. It operates on multiple planes: vertically, it helps shape hierarchies and consolidate power; h…
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May 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Read our latest essay by Yanee Dewoo on "Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance" / Amid the shadows of resurgent fascism in 2025, this truth beckons us to seize language too – to wield it as a flame to light our own battles. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/01/l...
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Charles Prempeh (KNUST, Ghana) argues in this new THN-essay that the surge in fascism in the Euro-American world constitutes a major nemesis to the much-touted Western civilization and a potential blot on the conscience of Evangelical Christians.
The Nemesis of Fascism: Faith, Exclusion, and Migrant Lives
That human beings are agentic rational creatures is hardly disputed. It is upon this that worldview analysis is imperative in understanding the overwhelming impact of fascism in the 21st century. I…
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May 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Charles Prempeh (KNUST, Ghana) argues in this new THN-essay that the surge in fascism in the Euro-American world constitutes a major nemesis to the much-touted Western civilization and a potential blot on the conscience of Evangelical Christians.
Charles Prempeh (KNUST, Ghana) argues in this new THN-essay that the surge in fascism in the Euro-American world constitutes a major nemesis to the much-touted Western civilization and a potential blot on the conscience of Evangelical Christians.
The Nemesis of Fascism: Faith, Exclusion, and Migrant Lives
That human beings are agentic rational creatures is hardly disputed. It is upon this that worldview analysis is imperative in understanding the overwhelming impact of fascism in the 21st century. I…
helsinkinotebooks.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Charles Prempeh (KNUST, Ghana) argues in this new THN-essay that the surge in fascism in the Euro-American world constitutes a major nemesis to the much-touted Western civilization and a potential blot on the conscience of Evangelical Christians.
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#OnThisDay in 1933, university students, supported by the Nazi Party, instigated book burnings of 'blacklisted' authors across Germany
The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship. #HolocaustExplained buff.ly/VPao61H
The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship. #HolocaustExplained buff.ly/VPao61H
May 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#OnThisDay in 1933, university students, supported by the Nazi Party, instigated book burnings of 'blacklisted' authors across Germany
The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship. #HolocaustExplained buff.ly/VPao61H
The book burnings stood as a powerful symbol of Nazi intolerance and censorship. #HolocaustExplained buff.ly/VPao61H
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NEW, from me: I found Patriot Front trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large part of the active clubs network according to audio messages and a leaked document I reviewed.
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Patriot Front is hidden hand behind dozen active clubs
The white nationalist hate group is trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large swath of the active clubs network.
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May 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
NEW, from me: I found Patriot Front trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large part of the active clubs network according to audio messages and a leaked document I reviewed.
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...
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Announcing the full program of the "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity" Conference! 5–6 June 2025 in Helsinki. Check it out! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/07/i...
Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference! 5–6 June 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland.
The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally portrayed through symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics – marches, demonstrations, street battles, and anti-fascist block tactics.…
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May 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Announcing the full program of the "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity" Conference! 5–6 June 2025 in Helsinki. Check it out! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/07/i...
Announcing the full program of the "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity" Conference! 5–6 June 2025 in Helsinki. Check it out! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/07/i...
Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity Conference! 5–6 June 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland.
The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally portrayed through symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics – marches, demonstrations, street battles, and anti-fascist block tactics.…
helsinkinotebooks.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Announcing the full program of the "Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity" Conference! 5–6 June 2025 in Helsinki. Check it out! #antifascism helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/07/i...
Language needs to be considered as a vital site of struggle in both anticolonial and antifascist resistance - learn more in this important essay by Yanee Dewoo:
Read our latest essay by Yanee Dewoo on "Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance" / Amid the shadows of resurgent fascism in 2025, this truth beckons us to seize language too – to wield it as a flame to light our own battles. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/01/l...
Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance
Language, in its many forms, semantics, and phonetics, plays a fundamental role in human interaction. It operates on multiple planes: vertically, it helps shape hierarchies and consolidate power; h…
helsinkinotebooks.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Language needs to be considered as a vital site of struggle in both anticolonial and antifascist resistance - learn more in this important essay by Yanee Dewoo:
Reposting the THN Mission Statement to our new followers: Get in touch if you want to contribute!
Here you can find "The Helsinki Notebooks" (THN) Mission Statement. Follow us for biweekly essays on #antifascism from a global perspective. Reach out to the editors via our website if you want to contribute with a dispatch in 2025:
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THN Mission Statement
The Helsinki Notebooks invites scholars and activists from all regions—Global South and Global North—to contribute essays, reflections, field reports, and other writings on political, ideological, …
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May 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reposting the THN Mission Statement to our new followers: Get in touch if you want to contribute!
Read our latest essay by Yanee Dewoo on "Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance" / Amid the shadows of resurgent fascism in 2025, this truth beckons us to seize language too – to wield it as a flame to light our own battles. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/01/l...
Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance
Language, in its many forms, semantics, and phonetics, plays a fundamental role in human interaction. It operates on multiple planes: vertically, it helps shape hierarchies and consolidate power; h…
helsinkinotebooks.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Read our latest essay by Yanee Dewoo on "Language as a Site of Struggle in Anti-colonial and Anti-fascist Resistance" / Amid the shadows of resurgent fascism in 2025, this truth beckons us to seize language too – to wield it as a flame to light our own battles. helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/05/01/l...