Please join us for the fourth and final ev ent of our 2023/24 CMS Speaker Series\, Integration Reimagined< /em>.
Please RSVP below for talk or talk+lunch.< /em>
In a global political context which favor s practices of containment – from border walls to prisons --this talk trace s a series of political experiments\, or what Miriam Ticktin is calling for ms of commoning\, referring to antiracist and decolonial struggles against enclosures. Ticktin looks at occupations of buildings and land by people on the move (migrants)\, fighting for the freedom not just to move but to sta y\, challenging regimes of private property and nation-state governance. Aw are of the contradictions raised by the concept of occupation\, Miriam Tick tin will explore these alternative political formations in Calais\, Paris\, Athens and New York City.
< a href="https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/miriam-ticktin">Miriam Ticktin i s Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center\, in New York City. She publishes widely on topics such as migration\, borders\, humanitarianism\, and racial and gendered inequal ities\, and most recently\, she has written about the idea of a decolonial feminist commons. She is the author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France (University of California Press\, 2012)\, and co-editor of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat an d Care (Duke University Press\, 2010). Her next book\, Against I nnocence: Undoing and Remaking the World is forthcoming with University of Chicago Press.
[alert title="Paper W orkshop Announcement" text="After the talk\, a paper workshop will be held with Miriam Ticktin and CMS Faculty Affiliate\, Helena Zeweri (Department o f Anthropology). It will be held at 3:30 pm – 5 pm on March 11. Participants will get to review Miriam's forthcoming work in an infor mal setting and share their comments. They will get an opportunity to inter act and build connections with the author through their own work. To RSVP f or this workshop\, please email admin.migration@ubc.ca by March 7. Spaces are limited." link_text="" link_url=""]
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