Issue 11 of Brief Encounters brings together explorations of how power can be both a weapon that destroys and a tool that builds. The articles and creative pieces featured in this issue interrogate systems, hierarchies, and forms of power. They engage with multiple contexts, draw on multidisciplinary perspectives, use diverse modes of inquiry, and include both critical and practice-based approaches.
Brief Encounters remains committed to supporting postgraduate researchers and amplifying their research. We hope this issue will contribute to interdisciplinary conversations around power and provide a space for researchers and practitioners to encounter diverse perspectives, approaches, and forms of inquiry.
Reviews
Racializing Care: Muslim Humanitarianism, Power, and Relationship-Building as Resistance: Dr Rhea Rahman and Faiza Abdulkadir in conversation
Faiza Abdulkadir and Rhea Rahman
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Bad Lads: Historic Abuse of Power and the Case for Radical Theatre
Naomi Weaver
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Articles
Black, autistic space invaders in the supervisory encounter
Jada Brown
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Unbuilding Authority: Everyday Space and the Architecture of Power in post-revolutionary Iran
Sara Gholami
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Agamben’s Enigma: biopolitics and the ontology of bare life
Harry M Lewis
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Power, Capital, and Nature: Reframing the Lobito Corridor
Bailey Gould
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Tate Modern's Turbine Hall: Generation(s) of Power
Abigail Popple
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Solar-powered, Sun-kissed, or Sun-blasted? Solarity and Futurity in Solarpunk Fictions
Kae Rose
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