Event overview
Professor Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna) speaks on "The multiplication of borders and border struggles in the contemporary world"
Drawing from a book I am currently finishing with Brett Neilson ("Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor"), this presentation will start with a description of the proliferation and heterogenization of borders that characterizes the contemporary world. It will then focus on the consequences of these processes for an understanding of migration and political subjectivity, discussing some of the most important positions in contemporary critical debates. The concept of border struggle will be then introduced against this background, and its importance for a radical politics of the common will be discussed.
Sandro Mezzadra is Associate Professor of Political theory in at the University of Bologna. He has been research fellow at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin; in the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney; at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris; at the University of Ljubljana; and at Duke University. In the last decade his work has centered on the relations between globalization, migration and citizenship as well as on postcolonial theory and criticism. He is an active participant in discussions within the tradition of Italian autonomist Marxism and (post)operaismo, and is one of the founders of the UniNomade network (http://uninomade.org/)
www.gold.ac.uk/postcolonial-studies/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Feb 2012 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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