Power, as an experiential reality, is as old as the universe when considered as the ability to influence. The understanding of its dynamics has therefore been the preoccupation of the knowledge quest from the earlier times, as man sought to understand the relations of power within the operations of nature. The inquiry into the earliest beginnings of the universe, with the proposition of various elements including fire, water, air and the earth as the most basic material components of nature, explored the relevance of these variants of matter to becoming. The human has remained at the centre of

The Necropolitics of Breath in a Policing State

Philip Olayoku Blog Post

The sombre mood within the globe, following measures to curtail the further spread of the deadly new coronavirus codenamed COVID-19, was interrupted by the enduring menace of police brutality; again stirring the world’s consciousness to the challenge of social inequality even if everyone remained vulnerable to infection by the virus. This period of the world’s healing process would thus be incomplete without revisiting the enduring question of police violence and its attendant targeted fatalities with waves of #Blacklivesmatter protests spiralling across different continents. This question

Access and Digitization on Trial: Alex Krakovsky's Archival Battle in Ukraine   

By Greg Stricharchuk (gstricharchuk@gmail.com), Fulbright Scholar, Ukraine

Last January, after some prompting by archivists in Poland, I visited the central archives in L’viv searching for documents about my grandmother. Without consulting the files, an official at the archive told me there were not any records that would help me. Disappointed, I told the colleague who had accompanied me that I was interested in learning more about Ukraine’s archives. Shortly after returning to the United States,  my colleague