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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have an essay on the situation in #SouthSudan in the new edition of The New York Review of Books

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

South Sudan’s Democratic Mirage | Joshua Craze

The billions of dollars that the West has poured into the country have not made it richer or more peaceful, but they have enabled a dictatorship.

www.nybooks.com

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Aug 15

Over the last two years, I’ve been working with Aziz Hazara on an essay for Triple Canopy about ‘Coming Home,’ his extraordinary art project, which has been transforming the trash the Americans left behind at Bagram, Afghanistan. ‘Junk Empire’ is now out! canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/jun...

Junk Empire | Triple Canopy

Like all great found objects, the butt plug invites questions.” On American waste in Afghanistan....

canopycanopycanopy.com

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Jun 23

I went on @ThisAmerLife to talk about my NYRB article about the demise of #USAID:

www.thisamericanlife.org/862/some-thi...

Some Things We Don't Do Anymore - This American Life

Trump froze U.S. foreign aid and dismantled USAID. We examine the agency’s impact and hear from people trying to navigate this chaotic moment.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Jun 16

With the inestimable @joe_falzetta, I just published a new investigation in @newhumanitarian, looking at Fogbow, a US company that has been involved in humanitarian operations in #Gaza, #Sudan, and #SouthSudan. We had a look at how they are getting on: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigatio...

Fogbow operations in South Sudan and beyond raise red flags for faltering aid system

The for-profit US firm is coordinating air drops that critics say transgress humanitarian principles.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Jun 12

www.patreon.com/posts/radio-... I'm on @RadioWarNerd talking about the conflicts in #Sudan and #South Sudan:

Radio War Nerd EP #528 — Sudan & South Sudan Wars, feat. Joshua Craze | Radio War Nerd

Get more from Radio War Nerd on Patreon

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · May 27

I went on @AmPrestigePod to talk about the situation in #SouthSudan americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/ameri...

American Prestige | E213 - South Sudan’s Failed Peace Deal w/ Joshua Craze

americanprestige.supportingcast.fm

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Reposted by Joshua Craze

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · May 7

Some on the left might argue that Trump’s immigration regime differs from his predecessors in matters of style but not substance. @joshuacraze.bsky.social isn’t fully convinced. Trump’s escalations go far beyond rhetoric.

Territorial Pissing | Joshua Craze

Trump’s decision to revoke South Sudanese visas is only one small part of a much larger destruction of the U.S. immigration regime currently underway.

thebaffler.com

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · May 2

For @thebaffler.com I wrote about the #SouthSudan visa imbroglio and the Trump administration's war on migrants: thebaffler.com/latest/terri...

Territorial Pissing | Joshua Craze

Trump’s decision to revoke South Sudanese visas is only one small part of a much larger destruction of the U.S. immigration regime currently underway.

thebaffler.com

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Apr 17

I have an essay up at New Left Review's Sidecar looking at the first two years of war in #Sudan
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Joshua Craze, Sudan’s World War — Sidecar

Two years of conflict.

newleftreview.org

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Mar 28

African Arguments has also published the third--and final!--part of my essay on #SouthSudan's current predicament, which looks at what is likely to happen next, and possible responses from the UN and that motley crew, 'the international community.'

africanarguments.org/2025/03/what...

What is Likely to Happen Next in South Sudan? | African Arguments

What is Likely to Happen Next in South Sudan?

africanarguments.org

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Mar 28

African Arguments have published the second part of my essay on the situation in South Sudan, which looks at the fate of the peace agreement, the vexed question of Kiir's succession, and Ugandan and Sudanese involvement in the current strife:

africanarguments.org/2025/03/is-t...

Is this the End of the Peace Process? | African Arguments

Is this the end of peace in South Sudan?

africanarguments.org

Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Mar 28

I have a new report out with Small Arms Survey on the politics of violence in South Sudan.

www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/bri...

On The Brink: The Politics of Violence in South Sudan

South Sudan is once again on the brink of war. The regime of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is bombing civilians and detaining the opposition, while foreign embassies close and evacuate staff. Th...

www.smallarmssurvey.org

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Mar 27

At African Arguments, I have published part one of a three part series looking at the current situation in #SouthSudan. The first piece looks at the dynamics of the current conflict in the country:

africanarguments.org/2025/03/what...

What Is Happening in South Sudan? | African Arguments

What is happening in South Sudan?

africanarguments.org

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Mar 12

Up at the The New York Review of Books I have a piece on the USAID imbroglio and what it means for the future of humanitarianism:

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

USAID: Goodbye to All That? | Joshua Craze

In South Africa and Kenya, HIV clinics have shuttered, depriving people of life-saving medication. In Uganda, where treatment has also halted, aid workers

www.nybooks.com

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Jan 31

I had the honour of writing a report on the Rapid Support Forces (#RSF) in #Sudan with Audre Lord for Small Arms Survey.

The report is a comprehensive look at the RSF during the Sudanese civil war: from its political economy to its recruitment strategy.

www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/rep...

The Republic of Kadamol: A Portrait of the Rapid Support Forces at War

After almost two years of war, Sudan is in the grip of a humanitarian and political catastrophe. A conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues to devastate the coun...

www.smallarmssurvey.org

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Jan 18

Last January, the German image-maker Wolf Böwig asked me if he could send me four images, to accompany an upcoming trip. There was no brief. Just a voyage and four images, which I kept like icons. A year later, my reflection on these four images is out: mouse-magazine.com/issue-6/in-o...

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Dec 22

Given the extraordinary claims made about Taleb Al Abdulmohsen, I’m reposting this essay I wrote for Cabinet about the Islamophobic right-wing history of using “taqiyya” as a structuring notion within its conspiracy theories.

www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/craze_...

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Dec 12

I contributed a short video on #redaction to @museumofmodernart R&D Salon 51: www.youtube.com/live/pWHaRx-... [My video starts at 39:35, but watch the whole event!]

My video is a short reflection on this essay, published in October: www.joshuacraze.com/s/Redaction-...

Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Nov 27

I have a new piece out with Small Arms Survey on the situation in Eastern Equatoria, #SouthSudan

It's about gold, power, and cattle raids!

www.smallarmssurvey.org/highlight/ne...

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Nov 17

I have a short dispatch up at the @nybooks.com on likely US policy on Africa under the reign of the orange man.

www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

The Return of Trump—VII | Dahlia Krutkovich, Omer Bartov, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Joshua Craze

Dahlia Krutkovich • Omer Bartov • Catherine Coleman Flowers • Joshua Craze Dahlia Krutkovich Bad-faith accusations of antisemitism on American campuses

www.nybooks.com

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Joshua Craze @joshuacraze.bsky.social · Nov 15

I have an essay out in
@haujournal
on witchcraft, anthropology, and the state.

It's about what you can say with witches, and the violence of the silences that surround them.

It contains some sentences I am very proud to have written:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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