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New UniGR-CBS thematic issue release: The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis
This collection of essays pays attention to the biopolitical intricacies surrounding borders, with a particular focus on the Global North, encompassing North America and Europe. It dwells on the growing importance of biopolitical perspectives in Cultural Border Studies and aims at re-thinking Europe and the Americas through the crises and challenges they pose. By scrutinizing biopolitics, the…
Lecture – Re-bordering the crisis
The lecture develops understandings of crisis through examining discourses and practices of everyday (re)bordering at multiple levels and from a range of perspectives across time and space. Through focusing on the bordering experiences of the survivors of a fire in a London apartment together with those of others associated with that event, the lecture reflects on…
Publication – Cross-border Work in Europe
The UniGR-CBS members Rachid Belkacem (University of Lorraine), Isabelle Pigeron-Piroth (University of Luxembourg) and Christian Wille (University of Luxembourg) as well Franz Clément (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research) have just published a new book.
The topic of the book is cross-border work in Europe from a multi-perspective view.…
Lecture – Border Crisis Art: Solidarity, Hope, and Reparative Practices
We live in times of polycrisis and an epoch of borderization, akin to a border renaissance. The ongoing influence of the Corona pandemic has accentuated this trajectory, amplifying the unprecedented proliferation of nascent and revitalized borders to unparalleled proportions. In the face of adversity, people, however, often find strength to adapt, innovate, and unite…
Atelier Bordertextures: Thinking Bordertextures From and With Welcome Cultures
Thinking borders as textures invites to be attentive to the existence of a multiplicity of border realities and to the entangled and dynamic web of elements that constitute them. The lecture uses this approach and will look into the situated dynamics of bordertextures from the perspective of welcome cultures, which designate the array of grassroots solidarity…
10th UniGR-CBS Seminar Border Studies – Emergencies and borders
The 10th UniGR-CBS Seminar Border Studies will take place at the University of Lorraine (Metz) on November 9-10, 2023.
Emergencies and borders: different perspectives on the migratory emergency in the Franco-German cultural area. Literature and Geography
November 9-10, 2023 Université de Lorraine, Metz
The plurality of current crises gives the…
Lecture – Crisis Apartheid: Or how geography is distorted to justify the selective dehumanisation of refugees in EUrope and conceal the global segregation created by its border regime
We analyse the inconsistent EUropean stance on refugee protection epitomised by the strident contrast between the unprecedented welcome dispensed to Ukrainian refugees and the chamber of horrors that the EU border regime has reserved for unfavourably racialised asylum seekers. The lecture aims at discussing the complexities of Europe's refugee policies.
2 November 2023, 4:00-6:…
Lecture – Geopolitics and biopolitics of governing cross-border mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: rationalities, technologies and subjectivities
Border surveillance and mobility control measures as normalized geopolitical and biopolitical governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic effectively altered and disrupted the everyday routines of people, resulting in a ‘crisis in crisis’ situation for many living in cross-border regions. Our presentation discusses the intertwinement of geopolitics and…