For the sixth issue of the ISRF Bulletin, Fellows were invited to offer contributions on the broad and ambiguous theme of ‘power’. The contributions received were remarkably consistent: engaging with power right now, for these ISRF Fellows, meant engaging with neoliberalism, colonialism and resistance. How power works matters for these social scientists because understanding its operations provides some clues as to how people can resist and self-determine.
The written contributors, Fellows and former Academic Advisor Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, were joined for this issue of the Bulletin by two guests. Swedish artist Mats Brate and Aboriginal elder and artist June Mills (from the Larrakia nation) worked with ISRF Editorial Assistant Rachael Kiddey to produce the very first ISRF Bulletin comic. Words and Power takes up the Bulletin theme in visual form.