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moreICCS WPS 25 Position Paper Migrations and the populist closure of Europe
Author/Speaker｜Rada Iveković
Publication Date｜2020-06
Abstract
Abstract
Migrations as an on-going movement bear however also a political history of discontinuities and interruptions. In reflecting on migrations, i shall necessarily be dealing with discontinuities, non-linearity and interruptions, which are, as frames, far more promising and stimulating than continuity. Continuity also testifies to a lack of political imagination. When starting from continuities, one is likely to keep in line with conventional power configurations and established hegemony. Hegemony builds on continuities. We opt for discontinuities because they are thought provoking. They disclose not only the other side of the medal, but unexpected viewpoints and perspectives too, including possible histories that did not happen but could have happened. They uncover alternative histories, possible histories, “unnecessary or useless histories”, deviant stories, autonomous or subaltern and complementary, unconventional narratives. Suddenly in the 21st century, we are faced with exception having become the rule, a change of paradigm in a way, and the distressing horizon of a visible end of the world that our civilization brought upon itself, through the doing of a virus pandemic.
Author's bio: Rada Iveković is a philosopher living and working in Paris. She taught philosophy at universities in Yugoslavia and France, and was visiting professor at many other universities round the world and across several continents. She attends conferences and publishes within feminist theory, political philosophy, Asian and western philosophies, on such topics as the nation, citizenship, sex&gender, migrations etc. Her last books are in French, L’éloquence tempérée du Bouddha. Souverainetés et dépossession de soi, Paris, Klincksieck 2014; Les citoyens manquants, Marseille, Al Dante 2015, Refugié-e-s. Les jetables, Noisy-le Sec, Al Dante 2016; Politiques de la traduction. Exercices de partage, Paris-Marseille, TERRA-HN 2019.
