Imaginative Counter-Politics
Political debates about borders today are often circumscribed by a binary choice: either we have open borders, or we have closed ones. An imaginative counterpolitics seeks to open up new political grammars beyond this dichotomy, by questioning these and other taken-for-granted terms, and ways of being in the larger-than-human world. How might we imagine forms of mobility that also include spaces of political belonging? We draw variously on political theory, ethnography, and art and design to open up the politics of bordering.
Somatic Shifts: The Politics of Movement in a Time of Covid
Victoria Hattam, Migration Mobilities Bristol Blog, September, 2020
Victoria Hattam, The Funambulist, 31, September-October, 2020
Imagining Otherwise: On “A Time for Critique”
Miriam Ticktin, Los Angeles Review of Books, April 3, 2020
Victoria Hattam, WSQ, 45, 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2017): 174-5.
Multiple Mobilities Research Cluster (Miriam Ticktin, Radhika Subramaniam, Victoria Hattam, Laura Liu, Rafi Youatt), 2017, Anthropology Now, 9:3, 24-37
Bach on the Border/Bach en la Frontera
In April 2019 Yo Yo Ma performed a selection of Bach’s cello suites at the border separating and connecting Laredo, Texas from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.