Ms Martina Tazzioli
Address:
Warmington Tower room 602
My current project concerns a critical analysis from a Foucaultian perspective of the European governmentality of people mobility and, in particular, of migrations. The aim is to make intelligible the interplay at work in the post-colonial European space between the so called neoliberal advanced techniques of identification and control and modalities of governing which are the effect of the colonial heritage. The main idea is that this articulation is very evident in the case of third-countries migrants, since their provenance from non western countries. Starting from this point, I'll take into account the normative power that is at stake both in the regime of disursivity of migrations and in the practices of power: in what sense has the psy-power been recast within the neoliberal governmentality of migrants? As a final step, I seek to search for the productions of new forms of subjectivity as the outcome of migrants' practices of resistance that continually disrupt the governmental regime: I'll focus on the shifts occurred through the struggles of migrants in the traditional model of citizenship and, mainly, in the historical continuum between private property – status of citizen – subject of rights, by inquiring what it means to be a political subject in the case of individuals that are on the borders of the “democratic play”.
Academic qualifications
- Phd candidate, Department of Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London
- MA (University of Pisa): Philosophy and forms of knowledge.
- BA (University of Pisa): Philosophy
Research interests
- Contemporary French political philosophy (Foucault, Deleuze, Balibar, Rancière)
- Governmentality Studies
- Critical approaches to migration theories and policies
- Post-colonial Studies
- Social movements and new practices of civil disobedience