Infrastructure

‘Paris goes for Olympic gold in levelling up.’ This Week, Those Books, 23 July 2024.

‘Why Britain’s politicians are obsessed with potholes – and why they still can’t seem to fix them.’ CiTTi: City Transport & Traffic Innovation Magazine, 19 July.

‘Why Britain’s politicians are obsessed with potholes – and why they still can’t seem to fix them.’ The Conversation, 26 June 2024.

‘Levelling down: How Britain’s infrastructure fell victim to the culture war.’ Byline Supplement, 17 February 2024.

‘Targeting infrastructure is an assault on Palestinian futures.’ Red Pepper, 30 January 2024.

‘How cars and road infrastructure became part of the UK’s culture wars.’ The Conversation, 26 January 2024.

‘Stories shape our world as concretely as infrastructure.’ Interview with Eve Lacroix, City, University of London, 10 January 2024.

‘“Levelling up” is part of the culture war.’ Red Pepper, 31 July 2022.

‘Speculative Borders: China Miéville’s The City & the City.’ Refugee Hosts: Representations of Displacement, 5 April 2019.

‘Hard Infrastructures, Diseased Bodies.’ Refugee Hosts: Representations of Displacement, 30 October 2017.

With Elleke Boehmer. ‘Interview: Planned Violence Exhibition.’ TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, 28 April 2016.

Graphic Narratives

‘What if the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol had succeeded? A graphic novel is uniquely placed to answer.’ The Conversation, 6 January 2023.

‘Three graphic novels that creatively confront the climate crisis.’ The Conversation, 8 December 2022.

‘Graphic Humour: Comics Studies, Literary Studies, and Laughter.’ Think Pieces, UCL IAS Review, January 2021.

‘Comics Artists and Collectives Decolonising Cities Across the Global South.’ Discover Society, 6 March 2019.

‘Genre, Politics, & Southern Superheroes.’ Africa in Words, 29 October 2018.

‘Review of Threadbare: Clothes, Sex and Trafficking.’ The Comics Grid, 2 June 2017.

‘“Urban Comix”: Collaboration, Reconstruction and Resistance in the Divided City.’ Beyond the Graphic: Considering Violence, Sexuality and Obscenity in Comics, U.S. Studies Online, 12 March 2017.

‘Comics and Graphic Narratives: A Global Cultural Commons.’ Editor’s Introduction. Words Without Borders Special Issue: International Graphic Novels: Volume XI, February 2017.

Other

‘What the death of Queen Elizabeth II means for the United Kingdom.’ Red Pepper, 25 September 2022.

‘Akala’s Natives: Autobiography and Anti-Racism After Empire.’ Writers Make Worlds, 1 December 2020.

‘Movement as a Political Act.’ Review 31, 3rd February 2017.

‘Urban Warfare, Resilience, and Resistance: Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi.Refugee Hosts: Representations of Displacement, 21 January 2017.

‘The Benefit of Hindsight.’ Review 31. 14 August 2016.