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On board the quarantine-ship as “floating hotspot”: Creeping externalization practices in the Mediterranean Sea
Full text linkFollowing the COVID-19 pandemic, migration was framed in Italy as ‘the emergency within the emergency’, leading the Italian Government to declare that its ports were not ‘‘safe places’ for people rescued from boats flying a foreign flag to disembark.’ As a result, under this guise of health and safety, in Italy migrants are now held in cruise ships repurposed as quarantine-ships for their sanitary isolation. We take this space as our analytic lens and draw on the experiences of the Elena Giacomelli whilst working as a caseworker for a humanitarian organization on board. In our analysis of the interactions of those working on board and the social relations produced therein, we unravel how these ships function as a form of Goffman’s totalitarian institution, where bio-political techniques are adopted that act on the body and mind of all on board, limiting access to asylum and functioning as a form of externalisation
Contronarrazioni del cambiamento climatico. Diari di ingiustizia climatica tra Dakar e Saint Louis, Senegal
No full textDrawing upon visual perceptions and lived experiences of the climate crisis in two climate-vulnerable locations in Senegal, our aim in this paper is to interrogate narratives of the climate crisis as “natural”. Empirical data is drawn from qualitative research conducted in Dakar and Saint Louis, including a one-month climate diary, capturing individual perceptions of climate change and mobility via photos and text, enhanced by information from focus groups and in-depth interviews. In this way, we reveal both the unequal impact of injustices upon local people and how qualitative research methods can capture counter-narratives and contribute to diverse knowledge production around the climate crisis
Challenging Eurocentric perceptions of mobility justice through climate diaries
Full text link“What is climate change for you?” This was the question we posed to our research participants in the city of Saint Louis, Senegal to answer visually. Given alarmist racialized portrayals of so-called ‘climate migrants’ as an invasive threat from the Global South to Global North we examined how visual methods can challenge western production of knowledge around the climate crisis. Via our methodology of ‘climate diaries’, we asked participants to share photos and perceptions of the climate crisis over a period of time through a WhatsApp group. The photos we received in response reveal the intensity of the phenomenon on their lives. A question that we, as two European academics based in Italy, may struggle to answer as a lived experience, as a concept that directly afects our everyday lives. Perhaps we may think of Venice as it sinks (Elena), or the loods in the UK (Sarah), issues which connotate a spatio-temporal distance. But a question, that, as we shall see later in this blog, for our participants is a powerful force in the here and now of their everyday lives. Yet a force that is not purely ‘natural’, but instead intertwined with structural political, economic and cultural factors that worsen the impacts of the climate crisis upon everyday lives
Practices of externalisation in the time of COVID-19: the case of the Italian quarantine ships
No full textThe refrain, ’we’re all in the same boat’, which became a common response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and a reference to the global and apparently indiscriminate nature of the pandemic, was quickly revealed as a fallacy. Here, we take the space of the ‘ship’ to expose how people are, quite literally and metaphorically, in very different boats indeed. Our analytic focus is on two cruise ships repurposed as quarantine-ships under the Italian ‘emergency’ migration policy triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on two such ships, we present how these former cruise ships, devoid of their usual tourist passengers as a result of the pandemic, were transformed into sanitised, surveillance spaces in which migrants’ bodies were subjected to racialised biopolitical practices of control. These practices further externalisation policies, which typically relocate responsibility for refugee protection away from states that are signatory to the Refugee Convention
16 No Country for Young Women and Men? Youth Perspectives on the Climate Crisis and (Im)mobility in Senegal
Full text linkThis chapter focuses on Senegalese youth to present their perspective on mobility (in)justice. It places attention on two coastal areas of Senegal: Dakar and Saint Louis, both significantly affected by the climate crisis, and in particular coastal erosion, driven by rising sea levels and rapid urbanisation. Both are sites of complex mobilities which interconnect with the climate in multiple ways. Empirical data is drawn from qualitative research conducted with young men and women of different socio-economic backgrounds. This included a ‘climate diary’ through which participants shared photos via a WhatsApp group to visually express their perceptions and lived experiences of the climate crisis, mitigation strategies and the complex nexus with (im)mobility. The chapter aims to enhance understandings of the ways in which the climate crisis is resisted from below and provide insights into the gendered and classed dimensions of mobility justice
Photographs of jacket belonging to Sarah Benson Walker: 1812-1893
No full textPhotograph of Sarah Benson Walker's jacket (Private Collection)
Sarah Benson Walker was the daughter of Methodists, Robert and Ann Mather, who joined the Quakers in 1934. That same year Sarah agreed to marry George Washington Walker. Sarah had ten children and regularly participated in Monthly Meetings
Photographs of Quaker bonnets belonging to Sarah Benson Walker: 1812-1893
No full textPhotographs of Sarah Benson Walker's bonnets
(Private Collection)
Sarah Benson Walker was the daughter of Methodists, Robert and Ann Mather, who joined the Quakers in 1934. That same year Sarah agreed to marry George Washington Walker. Sarah had ten children and regularly participated in Monthly Meetings
Photograph of cotton drawers belonging to Sarah Benson Walker: 1812-1893
No full textPhotograph of Sarah Benson Walker's cotton drawers (Private Collection)
Sarah Benson Walker was the daughter of Methodists, Robert and Ann Mather, who joined the Quakers in 1934. That same year Sarah agreed to marry George Washington Walker. Sarah had ten children and regularly participated in Monthly Meetings
Photographs of brown Quaker dress belonging to Sarah Benson Walker: 1812-1893
No full textPhotograph of Sarah Benson Walker's brown dress
(Private Collection)
Sarah Benson Walker was the daughter of Methodists, Robert and Ann Mather, who joined the Quakers in 1834. That same year Sarah agreed to marry George Washington Walker. Sarah had ten children and regularly participated in Monthly Meetings
Photographs of baby bonnets and nightgown belonging to the family of Sarah Benson Walker: 1812-1893
No full textPhotographs of baby bonnets and nightgown belonging to the family of Sarah Benson Walker (Private Collection)
Sarah Benson Walker was the daughter of Methodists, Robert and Ann Mather, who joined the Quakers in 1934. That same year Sarah agreed to marry George Washington Walker. Sarah had ten children and regularly participated in Monthly Meetings
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