FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Migration seminar: Governing the displaced in cities
Thursday 26 September, 10:15 - 12:00
Niagara 9th floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, or zoom
Welcome to the MIM Migration Seminar!
NB! The seminar is held at 10.15 instead of the ususal 14.15!
Governing the displaced in cities: Wars, the rule of “emergency”, and extraction
Profile
Ayşe Çağlar, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
Abstract
Capital and urban restructuring within austerity urbanism transformed cites not only into frontiers of accumulation but also into battlefields for resources, space, rights and justice anew. Cities increasingly became contested sites for rights, of imaginations, participation, belonging, justice claims, and solidarities for all urban residents. It is again in this context, migrants growingly become the subjects and objects of urban governance as well as of contentious politics in particular ways. Municipalities and city governments come to the fore in neoliberal urbanism with and increasing empowerment of mayors.
This talk focuses on the tensions and frictions of the growing prominence of cities in the governance of the displaced in the context of the reconfiguration of state power particularly strengthened by the mutations of “emergency” rule. I explore the interrelations between increasing authoritarianism, the power of mayors, and the private and corporate capital through the lens of wars and several forms of “crises” with a focus on the displaced. On the basis of empirical material on the governance of the displaced in cities in Europe, but also in Turkey, I scrutinize the Janus face of mayors’ power in times of rising authoritarianism and their consequences for the displaced populations and urban justice.
Attendance
This is a hybrid seminar, you are welcome to connect via Zoom or join us at MIM seminar room, floor 9, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1. To attend on campus, please gather by the reception area at 14.10.
If you have any questions, send an email mim@mau.se
