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Borders As Living Forces

Through the Prism of Borders invites the reader to reflect on the complexity of borderlands and how they might be reimagined. The artwork is showcased in a traveling exhibition which opened this weekend in Bolzano, Italy.

Jorie Horsthuis | 19 Nov 2025

  • Europe
  • Books
  • Art

Review

Growing Up in Twin Cities

In Border Documents, writer and photographer Arturo Soto narrates the youth of his father on the border of the United States and Mexico. Despite all the challenges, his life was very colourful.

Jorie Horsthuis | 27 Oct 2025

  • Americas
  • Books
  • Family

Review

Phantom Islands

In Isle of Seven Cities, visual artist and filmmaker Stéphanie Roland explores geographical fictions: islands which have been mentioned on maps, but never existed in reality.

Jorie Horsthuis | 17 Dec 2024

  • Books
  • Art
  • Photography

Review

Free the Map

Map attack! In Free the Map, a new publication by Henk van Houtum, traditional maps are challenged and new cartographic stories and representations are discussed and encouraged. A must for our readership.

Suzanne Hendriks | 12 Mar 2024

  • Maps
  • Books
  • Design
  • Politics
  • History

Review

Europadorp/Europadorf

In the audiovisual performance Europadorp/Europadorf, theater maker Silas Neumann takes us to the border area between Germany and the Netherlands. With video fragments, live soundscapes and augmented reality, he reconstructs the twenty year old utopia of a borderless village.

Jorie Horsthuis | 7 Apr 2022

  • Europe
  • Theatre
  • Art

Review Abkhazia

‘Here, We Are Talking Freely’

What makes a place your country? What makes a home? In Little Man, Time and the Troubadour, director Ineke Smits searches for answers in Abkhazia.

Joost Smets | 29 Mar 2022

  • Caucasus
  • Film
  • Art
  • Theatre

Review

Fortuitous Lines

Borders create paradoxes: when you cross them, everything changes but much stays the same. In Borderlands, Dutch journalist Milo van Bokkum describes this paradox and the way locals deal with the complexities caused by these often arbitrarily drawn lines.

Jorie Horsthuis | 20 Mar 2022

  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Africa
  • Books
  • Politics
  • History
  • Maps

Review

Fighters on Flip Flops

Photographer Philippe Dudouit is one of the few foreigners who continues to travel to the Sahelo-Sahara region. His remarkable work The Dynamics of Dust gives an exceptional insight into the shifting alliances in this vast area that is often neglected in world politics.

Jorie Horsthuis | 4 Feb 2021

  • Africa
  • Photography
  • Books
  • Politics
  • Music

Review

Blood and Honey

In Blood and Honey: Encounters at the Borders of the Balkans, Dutch journalist Irene van der Linde and documentary photographer Nicole Segers set out to document the borders of the Balkans. The picture they show is rather grim.

Jorie Horsthuis | 13 Jan 2021

  • Balkans
  • Photography
  • Politics
  • Art
  • History
  • Books

Review

Blood and Circuses

While football may strive to be apolitical and unite people, it has become highly politicised. In Blood and Circuses, Robert O’Connor delves into the collective memory and experiences of football by people who are living in contested territories like Transnistria and Kosovo.

Ramesh Ganohariti | 30 Nov 2020

  • Europe
  • Balkans
  • Caucasus
  • Books
  • Sports
  • Politics

Review

Engagement without Recognition

Isolation or interaction? In The Politics of International Interaction with De Facto States the authors explore the conundrum for politicians and policy makers: how to deal with de facto states in the international arena?

Jorie Horsthuis | 25 May 2020

  • Books
  • Politics

Review North Pole

Looking into the Past and Future of the Arctic

Two exhibitions are on show in the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, each give their view on the North Pole.

De Facto | 25 Apr 2020

  • Polar region
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Art
  • Climate

Review Kosovo

Gripping Tales from North Kosovo

In Dragon’s Teeth, writer and diplomat Ian Bancroft explores the paradoxes and absurdities of life in North Kosovo. With interviews, historical anecdotes and first-hand observations, he gives a human face to one of the most disputed territories in Europe.

Jorie Horsthuis | 23 Mar 2020

  • Balkans
  • Books
  • Politics
  • History
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