Another year almost done! Sit back, relax, and read some of the most-clicked articles on the website in 2019.
In Focus
I Choose to Look Above the Prison Walls…
From razor wire to emotional barriers, women serving life sentences contend with walls of all kinds—physical, rhetorical, and of their own making.
Bangkok’s New City of Walls
In a city famous for its relaxed attitude to living with water, climatic disjuncture has prompted citizenship demands for ecological security.
The Emerald Curtain
Four reflections on Brexit and borders on the island of Ireland.
Europe’s Other Walls
The Berlin Wall has always had multiple lives. Beyond its fall lies a story of proliferating borders and exclusions.
Walls of Expression and Dark Murals Tourism
Notes on the Battle of Cable Street mural—a colorful depiction of the day anti-fascists faced down by Oswald Mosely’s Blackshirts in London’s East End.
Explosive Landscapes
Walls are but the most visible parts of militarized borders.
Walls beneath the Waves
Geoarchaeological analyses in New York Harbor reveal intriguing evidence of past oceanic transgression even as we fortify our coasts for the future.
The Verbal Art of Kichwa Reclamation
Ecuador’s Indigenous languages are varied and contested. What can poetry and curing chants tell us about the experience of language change and the people working to reclaim them?
Rapping in Sakha
In Yakutsk, hip hop can be poetic, nostalgic, and even subversive. What can this inventive genre say about language relocalization and maintenance?
