Recently I travelled to Europe.
Before I left, friends and acquaintances noted their concern for my safety ‘over there’.
‘I’m glad it’s you. I’m too scared to travel with things the way they are’, ‘be careful’ and ‘but is it safe?’ were offered as a kind of ‘othering’; risk was conceptualised through a quick and dirty analysis of global unrest, translated into a…
Having lived in England, my familiarity with Europe and my…