Northeastern Law’s Center for Global Law and Justice 2024 Speaker Series, Issues in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Featuring:
Miriam Ticktin
Professor of Anthropology, Director, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center
Title
From Transnational Borders to No Borders? Commoning, Abolition and Imagining Otherwise
Abstract
Migration is a lightning rod in political debates globally; from Tunisia and South Africa to the US, Australia and many countries in Europe. And in most of these places, managing migration is synonymous with closing the borders. This talk will discuss the transnational politics of border walls, before it turns to the transnational political movements that work to counter enclosures and forms of containment. These struggles sometimes use the language of “no-borders”, and sometimes they are driven by humanitarians; and they involve a similar set of transnational circuits as do the technologies and designs of border walls, but with the opposite goal. While taking seriously these powerful politics and counterpolitics, ultimately I am interested in how people are imagining different ways of being, alongside or in the interstices of these visions – and I end by discussing these forms of alterpolitics, grounded in collective living and abolitionist forms of world-making.
Northeastern Respondent:
Dan Danielsen
Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Program on the Corporation, Law and Global Society, Northeastern University School of Law
Questions?
Please contact Professor Zinaida Miller at z.miller@northeastern.edu.
The lecture series is open to the Northeastern University community and the general public
Dec 5, 2024
2:50 pm to 4:45 pm