In 2008, something cracked in China’s growth model. The global financial crisis hit export-oriented manufacturing hard: factories slowed, orders collapsed, and millions of migrant workers suddenly found themselves without work. For rural migrants, the city had always been a conditional space — a place of labour, but rarely of secure belonging. Without stable employment, many […]
“War made the state, and the state made war.” Charles Tilly’s (1975) well-known thesis is not only a theoretical claim- in the Balkans, it becomes a lived reality. Bosnia and Herzegovina offers one of the clearest examples of how war and state formation are deeply intertwined. After World War II, Bosnia and Herzegovina was one […]
The importance of ports in the elaborate systems that enable the global mobility of goods has been a critical focus for nation-states and for globalised business interests. As a result, port development schemes, such as those linked to the China-led Belt and Road Initiative, have contributed to the rise in container volumes handled by ports […]