Niels Bekkema is a writer, editor and translator with a background in visual arts. He is the co-founder of kilo Translations and is a Reader/Advisor/Editor at The Geopolitical Open Atlas of The Polity of Literature (The GOAT PoL). In addition, he works as a thesis supervisor for the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid.
Over at The GOAT PoL, our nine Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing a dozen or more of their original stories every week.
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) continue to work with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) continue to work with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) continue to work with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every
Over at The GOAT PoL, our eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) are working with scores of stateless, refugee, and disenfranchised writers, publishing one or two dozen of their new stories every week.
We hope you enjoyed the last set of “staff picks” from The GOAT PoL. In our second edition we’ve got a new set of Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) amplifying texts that they
Artists can stage the encounter of the state with the refugees it presumes to judge. In this searching personal essay, Niels Bekkema, a Dutch artist working with the Polity of Literature series, recalls some of the ways that art and justice intersect and shed light on one another.
This supplement to the Polity of Literature project presents the Dutch Werkinstructie that are the primary guideline for Dutch bureaucrats assessing the applications of queer asylum seekers.
When refugees arrive in Europe they must tell their stories to state bureaucrats who control their fate. But is the state capable of hearing what they have to say?
