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Respecto/Resistenza
No full textnota critica al testo di P. Bourgois "Cercando rispetto. Drug Economy e cultura di strada
Not a story to pass on. Appunti per una teoria delle rovine
No full textThere exist histories that can be neither transmitted nor ignored: only re-opened, by dealing with something that refers to the past and yet still insists on the surface of the present – like a ruin. Starting from a sentence («not a story to pass on») obsessively repeated in the epilogue of Tony Morrison’s novel Beloved, and passing through, respectively, a series of Walter Benjamin’s well known fragments, a more recent book by W.G. Sebald and a postcolonial perspective on ruination suggested by Ann-Laura Stoler, the article explores the possibility of a political interpretation of ruins. It questions their anachronistic persistente and suggests we conceive of them as living entities whose specific affordance may subvert both history and its narration
recensione di Xiang Biao, "Global 'Body Shopping'. An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry."
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The space of camps
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The essay focuses on the particular spatiality and the political significance assumed by current detention and/or confinement facilities for “displaced” subject (refugees, migrants, asylum seekers, etc.). By detecting a common matrix, or form, within the different manifestations of camps (as transit places looming over subjects "in transit"), the author interprets it in terms of a Foucauldian governamental apparatus/dispositif, whose origins date back to the colonial order and whose specific “productivity” consists in defining the very existence of internable and deportable subjects. Stressing the crucial role played by camps as flexible border devices to govern different experiences of movement and displacement, the article suggests to conceive them as places that, instead of reflecting a direct sovereign decision an thus a politics of exception, seem rather to exceed any fixed political order by reproducing the deterritorialized geography of current security politics. In a specific postcolonial perspective, current detention centers become the material symptoms of a spatiality that transcends either the nation states’ scale and its territorial logics of sovereignty. -
Keywords: administrative detention, security politics, exceptionalism, migrations, asylum policies, colonial history, postcolonial critiqu
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