Event overview
Hostile Environments: Visual Cultures Public Programme (Spring 2019)
Thom Davies (School of Geography, University of Nottingham)
Arshad Isakjee (School of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool)
Drawing on research conducted in Calais (Davies et al 2018) and the Balkans (Isakjee et al forthcoming), this presentation examines the technologies of violence that sustain the European border, as well as the racial logics that underpin them. We highlight how refugees have been immobilized not only through the overt use direct violence, but also through the deliberate deployment of political indifference and violent inaction.
The violence of inaction sees migrants left to drown in the Mediterranean sea when they could otherwise be saved, and can be witnessed in the squalor of makeshift migrant camps found across the continent, which have been deliberately denied basic humanitarian standards. We will conclude by raising questions about the possibilities of resistance, refusal and resilience in the face of such direct and indirect forms of oppression.
Interrogating Violence at the European Border is part of Hostile Environments: Visual Cultures Public Programme (Spring 2019), organised by Nishat Awan and Lorenzo Pezzani
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Mar 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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