About the Kooz program.

Displacement and alienation are among the most difficult and painful of human experiences, be it that born out of migration in search of a better life, forced displacement as a result of war and persecution, or escape from the judgments of one’s country. But a sense of alienation does not only result from spatial or geographic dislocation. It can manifest itself in one’s relationship with one’s body, surroundings, and environment. Alienation is a temporary feeling of being a stranger—to oneself or to one’s surroundings—which affects a person’s behaviours and relationship to their environment. In Marx’s thought, alienation is a feature of capitalism, which instrumentalises and appropriates workers’ labour, resulting in a major crisis that must be solved and addressed.