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Book review: migration, ethics & power: spaces of hospitality in international politics by Dan Bulley
No full textIn Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces of Hospitality in International Politics, Dan Bulley offers a study of the ethics and politics of hospitality, exploring how spaces are produced through various negotiations of host/guest relations. Covering such topics as refugee camps, global cities and the institutional ethos of the EU, this book is a sophisticated and nuanced conceptualisation of hospitality that will be of interest to researchers of migration, political geography and global ethics, writes Chenchen Zhang. Migration, Ethics & Power: Spaces of Hospitality in International Politics. Dan Bulley. SAGE. 2016. Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the Twentyfirst Century. Catherine M. Soussloff (ed.). Rowman and Littlefield. 2016
Ethics and foreign policy : negotiation and invention
No full textTo what extent can ethics and foreign policy be conceived as possible? Instead of
answering within the implied dichotomy of possibility and impossibility, this thesis
argues for a reconceptualisation of the dichotomy. Ethics and foreign policy are better
understood on the basis of undecidability: neither simply possible nor impossible, but
both at the same time. A deconstructive reading of British (1997-2006) and EU (1999-
2004) foreign policy, both of which make claims to ethics, reveals how the issue is beset
by internal contradictions, paradoxes and aporias. The deconstruction is structured
around the concepts of subjectivity, responsibility and hospitality, each of which
constitutes an important point of undecidability within British and EU representations of
their ethical dimension. The subject of ethics and foreign policy is always haunted and
inhabited by its object, responsibility is necessarily irresponsible, and hospitality
contains an irrepressible hostility. Thus, ethics and foreign policy is best conceived as
undecidably im-possible. However, such undecidability cannot be used to justify
abandoning the goal of an ethical foreign policy. Rather, a Derridean 'negotiation' is
proposed. Negotiation seeks to remain loyal to the dual injunction of deconstruction, an
undecidability which is the condition of ethics and politics, and a decision which
decides, and closes to certain figures of otherness. It requires a permanent questioning,
testing and invention of the promise of ethics and foreign policy. This produces a range
of illustrative suggestions for the possible enactment of an ethico-political foreign
policy, which would refer to and strive for an ultimately unrealisable ethical foreign
policy. This research contributes a fundamental critique and questioning of the
possibility of ethics and foreign policy. It provides a revealing exploration of British and
EU foreign policy from the period, based around responsibility and hospitality. Finally,
the thesis introduces the Derridean notion of negotiation to the discipline, seen as a way
of moving through the potential paralysis brought by the undecidability arising from
foundational questioning
The Political Import of Deconstruction—Derrida’s Limits?: A Forum on Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx after 25 Years, Part I
No full textAbstract Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. Maja Zehfuss, Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo and Dan Bulley and Bal Sokhi-Bulley offer sharp, occasionally exasperated, meditations on the political import of deconstruction and the limits of Derrida’s diagnoses in Specters of Marx but also identify possible paths forward for a global politics taking inspiration in Derrida’s work of the 1990s
The political import of deconstruction—Derrida’s limits?: a forum on Jacques Derrida’s specters of Marx after 25 Years, part I
No full textJacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a large critical literature and invited both consternation and celebration by figures such as Antonio Negri, Wendy Brown and Frederic Jameson. This forum seeks to stimulate new reflections on Derrida, deconstruction and Specters of Marx by considering how the futures past announced by the book have fared after an eventful quarter century. Maja Zehfuss, Antonio Vázquez-Arroyo and Dan Bulley and Bal Sokhi-Bulley offer sharp, occasionally exasperated, meditations on the political import of deconstruction and the limits of Derrida’s diagnoses in Specters of Marx but also identify possible paths forward for a global politics taking inspiration in Derrida’s work of the 1990s
A Relational Ethics of Immigration: Hospitality and Hostile Environments
No full textBuku ini menawarkan pendekatan baru terhadap etika imigrasi dengan mengeksplorasi tanggapan negara dan masyarakat terhadap imigrasi dari Dunia Utara dan Selatan. Etika dalam dunia hospitality yang disesuaikan dengan kebudayaan lokal. Ini akan membuat etika tidak lagi dibatasi oleh aturan yang ditetapkan tetapi bisa dikembangkan sesuai dengan kebudayaan masing-masing tempat.vii, 193 p
Alaskan Author and Historian Dan O'Neill
No full textDan O'Neill has become a living legend in Alaska. He is the author of The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement; A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River; The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge, and recently Stubborn Gal: The True Story of an Undefeated Sled Dog Racer, a children's book published by the University of Alaska Press. Dan came to Alaska in 1975 and has done a variety of things including dog mushing, trapping, hunting, working in construction, and on the pipeline. As research associate at the UAF Oral History program, he produced radio and television documentaries for public broadcasting, and for several years he wrote a column of political opinion for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Ethics, power and space: International hospitality beyond Derrida
No full textThis article argues for the importance of hospitality in discussions of international ethics, suggesting that, while Jacques Derrida’s thought on the concept ought to be central, we also need to go beyond it. In particular, Derrida’s focus on the threshold moment of sovereign decision has the effect of reinforcing International Relations’ focus on the state as the only ethical actor and space. In contrast, this article suggests that we think of hospitality as a spatial relation with affective dimensions and a practice that continues once the guest crosses the threshold of the home. Conceived as such, hospitality reveals a constitutive relation between ethics, power and space, which directs us to the way hospitality produces international spaces and manages them through various tactics seeking to contain the resistant guest. This argument is illustrated through an examination of perhaps the most urgent of contemporary international ethical spaces: the refugee camp
Inside the tent: Community and government in refugee camps
No full textRefugee camps are increasingly managed through a liberal rationality of government similar to that of many industrialized societies, with security mechanisms being used to optimize the life of particular refugee populations. This governmentality has encompassed programmes introduced by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to build and empower communities through the spatial technology of the camp. The present article argues that such attempts to ‘govern through community’ have been too easily dismissed or ignored. It therefore examines how such programmes work to produce, manage and conduct refugees through the use of a highly instrumentalized understanding of community in the spatial and statistical management of displaced people in camps. However, community is always both more and less than what is claimed of it, and therefore undermines attempts to use it as a governing tactic. By shifting to a more ontological understanding of community as unavoidable coexistence, inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy, we can see how the scripting of and government through community in camps is continually exceeded, redirected and resisted. Ethnographies of specific camps in Africa and the Middle East enable us both to see how the necessary sociality of being resists its own instrumentalization and to view the camp as a spatial security technology. Such resistance does not necessarily lead to greater security, but it redirects our attention to how community is used to conduct the behaviour of refugees, while also producing counter-conducts that offer greater agency, meaning and mobility to those displaced in camps
Home is Where the Human is?:Ethics, Intervention and Hospitality in Kosovo
No full textThe human is frequently made central to the way international ethics is thought and practiced. Yet, frequently, the human can be used to close down ethical options rather than open them up. This article examines the case of British foreign policy in Kosovo. It argues that the human in this context was placed at the centre of ethical action, but was discursively constructed as a silent, biopolitial mass which could only be saved close to its territorially qualified home. It could not be protected by being brought to the UK. To remain human, the subject of ethical concern, the Kosovan refugee, had to remain near Kosovo. This construction of the human-home relationship meant that military humanitarian intervention became the only ethical policy available; hospitality, a welcoming of the Kosovan refugee into the British home, was ruled out. This article questions such a construction of the human, listening to the voices of Kosovan refugees to open up the relationship between the human and its home. The complexity that results shows that a more nuanced view of the human would not allow itself to be co-opted so easily to a simplistic logic of intervention. Rather, it could enable the possibility of hospitality as another way of practicing international ethics
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