Seit mehr als einem Jahr verhandeln die Koalitionspartner CDU/CSU und SPD über ein neues Gesetz zur Regulierung von Sexarbeit in Deutschland. Begonnen hat die Debatte um die Situation der Sexarbeit bereits vor einigen Jahren, nachdem von mehreren Seiten Kritik an…
Blind Pathways and Precarious Power in Inner-City Johannesburg
In the city of Johannesburg hundreds, perhaps thousands, of blind and otherwise disabled cross-border migrants – mostly from Zimbabwe – try to survive in the city. They live under conditions of extreme precarity, many residing in unlawfully occupied buildings, subject…
Productive Pathologies: Poverty, Biovalue and Commodification of Disease in Urban Egypt
June 2005: It is the annual end of year examination period in Al-Qasr Al-Aini Medical School in Cairo when some students in their clinical years have to carry out their practical examinations next to the bedside. Outside of the medical…
Healing the City: Sufi Prayers in Berlin’s Towers
Sufism in Berlin and Material Healing When little spots of roadside space are claimed, memorials constructed and maintained, mourning rituals performed, the separated space defended and protected, the secular made sacred, and public space privatized, then a place is made…