The island of Lesvos is a space of multiple histories of refugee passage, now reinvented as a "hot spot" in the contemporary European regime of migration management, but also reimagined by people who live there as a space of social solidarity with migrant struggles. It thus constitutes one epicentre, or "contested borderscape" of Fortress Europe, and a place where we might learn from local struggles and movements against its murderous politics. If, over the past year, the shores and seaways of Lesvos ( "Lesbos”) gained international visibility as the backdrop to untold human suffering, loss, and survival, the purpose of gathering here is not to consume it as a spectacle; instead, we seek to learn from how people here have responded to, and organised in the urgency of what has became mediatised as "the refugee crisis." The main aim of this international conference is to create a space of critical reflection in which academics, artists, and activists from different disciplines, backgrounds, and locations, can strategise, organise, and analyse the social landscapes of border-spaces such as this, and their reverberations for anti-border politics elsewhere.
Track 1: The notion of the border
Borderlands, borderscapes, borderlines, border regimes
Borders and nomadism, diaspora, travel, heterotopias, and otherness
In-between spaces, hybrid spaces, and threshold spaces vis-à-vis border fortification, militarisation, enclaves, ghettos, walling urbanism, state territories
Bridging political, social, national, gender, religion and identity borders, boundaries and communities
No borders, open borders, and border-crossing struggles, movements, and activism
Track 2: Migrants'commoning practices
Autonomy of migration and transnationalism
Mobile common space; strategies and practices for survival, struggle, solidarity, networking, communication, mutual aid of the moving populations.
Collective and sharing practices in migrants’ informal settlements and camps
Social solidarity, connections between the social struggles of the locals and the migrants; social philanthropy, humanitarianism, volunteering and NGO’s industry
Migrants’ social centres, squatted buildings, and self-organised housing projects
Track 3: New intersectional enclosures
New enclosure policies, forced displacement, dispossession and grabbing of the means of production and reproduction, permanence of so-called primitive accumulation
Class aspects of immigration, cheap workforce, surplus reserved army of unemployment
Emergence of nationalistic-racist-fascist rhetoric and practice, (for instance, racist locals’ committees, the role of church and media)
Gendered aspects of immigration (women, lgbtq+, sexism, gendered violence, pregnancy)
Age aspects of immigration (children and elderly people)
Disability and immigration
Cultural re-appropriation of moving populations
Slavery, trafficking, human organs’ trafficking
Track 4: State and Hyperstate migrant policies
Fortress Europe, detention centers, hot spots, relocation policies, new border fences
Law geographies, divisions between refugees and immigrants, criminalization and illegalization of border crossing, the right to citizenship and asylum
Fear policies, xenophobia and biopolitics
Health geographies, biosecurity and border controls
Neocolonialism, geopolitics and war
Track 5: Representations and communication
Cultural representations of the Other
Landscape and representations of the Other
Newcomers – new ideas – new cultural relations
Art and multicultural representations
Newcomers and e-books, e-sharing, horizontal e-actions
Other history, other museum, oral history of newcomers
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2017
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2017
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