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‘We Refugees’: Hardening and Softening of the borders of everyday
life.
Alison Phipps
University of Glasgow
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Gifts are in the Feet
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The Epic Story
Of the hardening of bordersagainst kith and kin
And the softening of borders of skin.
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Conditional Hospitality: FRONTEX and the Mediterranean (The Guardian)
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Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? … in that gray vault. The sea. The sea has locked them up. The sea is
History.
(Derek Walcott )
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Calais
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States of Exception
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‘They create a wasteland and call it peace.’
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Yesterday’s Story
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A life time banon all who
arrive by boat.
On all who havethe gall
to make a ‘dangerousjourney’ towards
Protection.
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Another Story
Of the hardeningOf the hardest
of borders
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Islamic University Gaza
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Borders of FinanceDear TEMPUS (partners)
We are emailing you in reference to Project 517494-TEMPUS-UK-JPMES (2011-2504). We have been asked by the European Commission to provide documentation in regards to costs that have been reported in the financial claim.
You may have already provided documentation for these transactions however, the Commission is asking you to provide these again, and if any documents are in Arabic, they must be translated into English so we can understand the content.
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That morning
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On that same day
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We have been here before.
And here we are again.
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We are all border guards now
Health Care
Education
Housing
Employment
Banking
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An Academic Border Guard
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Where to go?
And to whom;To think anew the questions
We are posed By all those
Asking “Where to, when no one will have us?
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We Refugees: Arendt (1943)
“The concomity of the European peoples went to pieces, when, and because, it allowed its weakest member to be excluded and persecuted.”
(Arendt: p119).
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‘Optimistic’ Refugees Apparently no one wants to know that contemporary history has created a new kind of human beings – the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and internment camps by their friends. (p111)
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Sacred – in the original sense of ‘destined to die’
“Refugees driven from country to country represent the vanguard of their peoples – if they keep their identity.” (p.112)
On ne parvient pas deuxfois.
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Agamben: on ‘We Refugees’If in the system of the nation-state the refugee represents such a disquieting element, it is above all because […] the refugee throws into crisis the original fiction of sovereignty.
(p.117)
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The Dominant Scripts
“The script is of therapeutic, technocratic, consumer militarism.
[Of Rights and Subjects, Sovereignty and Citizenship.]
And that script has failed.
It cannot make us safeAnd it cannot make us happy.” (Brueggemann)
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Citizen’s ‘being-in-exodus’“It is only in a land where the spaces of state will have been perforated and topologically deformed, and the citizen will have learned to acknowledge the refugee that he [sic] himself is, that man’s political survival today will be imaginable.”
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Porosity & Perforation
“Mental life doesn’t so constrain us. It is porous, open to the air and light.”
(Scarry, 2003, 34)
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The offer of a Counter-storyPeople don’t change much through doctrine or argument or sheer cognitive appeal.
People don’t change much because of moral appeal – or at least not these days.
Offer of other models or old stories half forgotten, echoes from other peoples and places, tracings. (Brueggemann)
Invitation to a counter-story
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“We Refugees” - a softening
2 ‘puncturing’ events (Badiou).
The change of heart by a politician and a country.
Aylan Kurdi image
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What are we learning? “The new world is not given whole, any more than the new self is given abruptly in psychotherapy. It is given only a little at a time, one poem, one healing one pronouncement, one promise, one commandment.” (Brueggemann)
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Perforations: Imagining Inclusive Nationalism
“You have honoured us by making Scotland your home.”
FM Sturgeon
“When people say to me ‘why don’t we take care of our own’ I say – they are our own. This is their home.”
Minister for Europe: Yousaf.
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Witness-bearing: Grand Synthe
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Arts of Softening and Deterritorializing
Multimodal, multilingual Creative Interventions and Interruptions (translingual practice).
Curation of films, workshops, methods, poetry, drama, devising.
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Saumoud: Perforations
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnxZ_tWPOT0
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Noyam - Broken World, Broken Word
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Sharing the World:
“Meeting a stranger outside of our own boundaries is rather easy, and even satisfies our aspirations, as long as we can return home and appropriate between ourselves what we have in this way discovered.
To be forced to limit and change our home, or our way of being at home, is much more difficult.” (Irigarary)
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Du musst dein Leben ändern.
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Decisions based on ‘Research Evidence’
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“Revolution happens because everyone refused to go home” (Butler)
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‘Harsh and Exciting’“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.Meanwhile the world goes on.Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rainare moving across the landscapes,over the prairies and the deep trees,the mountains and the rivers.Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,the world offers itself to your imagination,calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --over and over announcing your placein the family of things.” (Mary Oliver)