SRCS Wednesday Lecture：2017/05/31_14:00-17:00_ Pro.Sandro Mezzadra_"Democracy Under Erasure? The European Union and Its Multiple Crises"

2017-05-31

Speaker： Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna)
About the Speaker:
Sandro Mezzadra is an Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he teaches postcolo

Room 106A , HA Building 2, National Chiao Tung University

Abstract:
The talk will address the multiple crises of the European Union particularly focusing on the connection between austerity policies and the so-called “migration crisis”. It will dwell both on the mutations of democracy within these developments and on the global implications of the current predicament of the European Union. Questions of postcolonialism and decolonization will be addressed from the angle of an analysis of the shifting and elusive borders between Europe and its multiple outsides.

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References
S. Mezzadra – B. Neilson. Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. Durham, NC – London: Duke University Press, 2013.

S. Mezzadra. “Seizing Europe – Crisis Management, Constitutional Transformations, Constituent Movements”. In Ó.G. Agustín – Ch. Ydesen (eds). Post-Crisis Perspectives. The Common and Its Powers. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2013: 99-118.

S. Mezzadra. “The Proliferation of Borders and the Right to Escape”. In Y. Jansen, R. Celikates and J. de Bloois (eds). The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe. Detention, Deportation, Drowning. London – New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015: 121-135.

S. Mezzadra – M. Bojadžijev. “‘Refugee crisis’ or crisis of European migration policies?”. Focaalblog. November 2015. http://www.focaalblog.com/2015/11/12/manuela-bojadzijev-and-sandro-mezzadra-refugee-crisis-or-crisis-of-european-migration-policies/

S. Mezzadra – G. Caccia. “Desintegration Europas oder konstituierender Prozess? Krise,
Notstandsregierung und die Aussicht auf eine demokratische Neuerfindung”. In M. Candeias – A. Demirovic (eds). Die Europäische Union zwischen Zerfall, Autoritarismus und demokratischer Erneuerung. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2017:289-314.