nickmegoran.bsky.social
@nickmegoran.bsky.social
Walls can reopen and come down, as well as close and go up. That's important intellectually and politically.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We look at the striking story of how Uzbekistan has dematerialised its borders with Kyrgyzstan in multiple ways, and the benefits that arise from this.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
We suggest that 'dematerialising' borders is a more nuanced way to conceptualise this than, for example, the binary 're/debordering.'
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Border studies has recently focussed on the violence of border closures - and rightly so. But it is also important to remember that borders open as well as close.
October 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Oh dear!
September 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If this is the case - how would we do politics differently?
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
... what if no one can earn their way to God, but instead he came down to earth as the son of a humble, unmarried peasant woman - a refugee, to boot - to make peace with us and lifted humanity up to him?
August 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Online version, with different images, available her for subscribers: www.thetimes.com/article/fe23...
The day US and Japanese soldiers laid down their guns for a picnic
A forgotten truce on Aka Island, Okinawa, which ended one of the most bloody land battles of the Second World War, was commemorated this year
www.thetimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM