About the event
This presentation develops a border abolitionist perspective to migration governmentality, with a specific focus on the confinement continuum that those racialised as "migrants" are subjected to. It starts by taking stock of the partially missed encounter between critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionist literature. It shows that an abolitionist perspective enables tracing connections between interlocking forms of racialisation and, at the same time, building transversal alliances of solidarity. It moves on by challenging mechanisms of migration confinement beyond what Ruth Gilmore defined as "the politics of white innocence". It concludes by interrogating what a critical knowledge of the border regime might mean in a context characterised by states’ blatant violations of the international law.
About the speaker
Martina Tazzioli is a lecturer in politics and technology at Goldsmiths. She is the author of The Making of Migration. The biopoltics of mobility at Europe’s borders (Sage, 2020), Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015) and co-author of Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (2016). She is co-editor in chief of the journal Politics and part of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy.
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All are welcome to attend the seminars but registration is required via Eventbrite.
The Centre for the Study of Democracy Spring 2022 Seminar Series
The Centre for the Study of Democracy is organising a full programme of research seminars with visiting speakers this semester.
Events take place from 4–5.30pm (please note, the event on 8 February has an earlier start time), either online, or in the Westminster Forum, Level 5, 32-38 Wells Street, University of Westminster, W1T 3UW. All are welcome to attend the seminars but registration is required.
Please note that for in person events, places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. For the online events, once you book your ticket, a link to the talk will be sent to you closer to the date.
You can see all the events happening on the Centre for the Study of Democracy Spring 2022 Seminar Series event page.
