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…
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…
Knowledge production and the politics of ‘integration’ in contemporary Europe: challenging the depoliticisation of (anti-)racism
by Silvia Rodríguez Maeso Coordination: This seminar will discuss the enduring difficulties of addressing racism as a political phenomenon that shapes the normal functioning of institutions and everyday social relations within the so-called democratic societies. It will focus on the…
Border Struggles in the Migrant Metropolis
by Nicholas de Genova Transnational migration is a central and constitutive dynamic in the social production (and transformation) of urban space. These transnational urban conjunctures are indisputably generated very much within the territorial boundaries and jurisdictions of nation-states, and in…
