Borders, Logistics and Unequal Lives
We begin with the issue of "borders, logistics, and unequal lives” in the time of COVID-19 as an introduction to the series of events we plan to initiate in the coming months. In this series, Sandro Mezzadra, Ranabir Samaddar, Brett Neilson, and Joyce C.H. Liu will offer their reflections and thoughts on the research lines we need to engage concerning the precarity of migrant lives in the pandemic and the operation of logistics behind the flow of capital. The forum provided by this podcast aims to bring together all GHI participants, speakers, and researchers from the partner institutes to exchange their experiences, views, and research outcomes with critical outlooks to aspects of border politics, logistics, and rising inequalities from a global perspective. This series will also open to the public so that we can generate more discussions for future research.
The term ‘unequal’ provides a vast array of opinions and impressions. The deleterious effects of these inequalities are more dominant among vulnerable communities, for instance, marginalized migrant categories, segregated refugees, slum dwellers, and other economically penurious groups. However, ‘unequal’ circumstances are not only results of economic unevenness but also caused by policies of modern nation-states. The tumultuous transformations in border controls and territorial supremacies have created the imperative for us to reanalyze the questions revolving around these keywords.
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Talk 4: Sandro Mezzadra
Logistical rationality of migration management: Forced human mobility and immobility in the age of pandemic-The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.Powered by Firstory Hosting
Talk 3: Ranabir Samaddar
Borders of an Epidemic-The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.Powered by Firstory Hosting
Talk 2: Brett Neilson
The “New Normal” of whom? Critical thinking on border hardening and (re)nationalism in the age of COVID-19 Pandemic-The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.Powered by Firstory Hosting
Talk 1: Joyce C.H. Liu
What comes after the lockdown?-The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.Powered by Firstory Hosting