Encountering Financialisation: Some Reflections on Method
by Emma Dowling (Middlesex University, London) Whilst the term financialisation has been in heavy circulation at least since the onset of the global financial crisis, it is still predominantly considered a terrain for economic ‘experts’, a discourse that removes finance…
What is racism as a relational concept?
Preliminary thoughts for a conceptual and ethnographic approach by Manuela Bojadžijev & Serhat Karakayalı (Humboldt-Universität) Developments of a critical research on racism have ever since been confronted with the fact that racism constructs hierarchical identities that seem irreducible/irrefragable for…
Visual Representations of Migration
by Moritz Altenried (Goldsmiths, University of London), Vivian Latinwo-Olajide (Middlesex University) and Klara Jaya Brekke (Durham University / Crisis-scapes research collective) The representation of migrants has been extensively discussed, both in public and academic discourse. Our research will address visual…
Expanding the Margins
by Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna) The lecture is meant as a general introduction to the topic of the summer school. I will start with a short presentation of the main points made in the book I recently published with…
Mobility and Migration is not a Tautology
by Käthe Knittler, Fanny Müller-Uri, Silvia Schröcker, Precarity Office Vienna (University of Vienna) A Militant Research Contribution to Migration in Europe in the Context of Crisis Our project evolves out of the current conjugations of precarity, migration and crisis. After…
