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This article puts Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon into dialogue in order to explore the relationships between the constitution of subjects and the production of truth in modern Western societies as well as in colonial spaces. Firstly, it takes into account Foucault's analysis of confessional practices and the effects of subjection, objectivation, and subjectivation generated by the injunction for the subject to tell the truth about him or herself. Secondly, it focuses on the question of interpellation that emerges in the colonial context and on the colonized who, as Fanon illustrates, is always seen as a deceitful subject. Finally, it shows that, despite the difference in the relationships between the constitution of subjectivity and the production of true discourses described by Foucault and Fanon, the transformative dimension enacted by the processes of subjectivation and by the practices of resistance constitutes a shared conceptual and political ground between the two authors.

The aim of this article is to analyse some of the most important contemporary practices of refusal that take place in the field of "politics", and to (re)inscribe them in the long tradition of civil disobedience. Firstly, we will consider civil disobedience in its "classical" form, defining it as the refusal to obey to one or some laws that govern citizens. We will sketch the five major characteristics of this "classical" form of civil disobedience on the basis of Henry David Thoreau's famous essay Resistance to Civil Government (1849). Secondly, we will study two specific but displaced figures that civil disobedience takes in our times - namely, the struggles of migrants in Italy and Greece during the year 2010 and the fights of the English ecologist group Climate Camp. In so doing, we will highlight the principal transformations of civil disobedience through the study of three innovative axes that we denominate "counter-uses", "active disobediences" and "movements of the intolerable". Our conclusion will be that, in order to understand these contemporary political practices of refusal, we must recognize in the disobedient subject an active "supplement" to the simple act of subtraction from power made in the name of a civil responsibility. ; Le but de cet article est d'analyser quelque pratique contemporaine de refus qui se joue dans le champ de la " politique ", et de la (ré)inscrire dans la longue tradition de la désobéissance civile.

The aim of this article is to analyse some of the most important contemporary practices of refusal that take place in the field of "politics", and to (re)inscribe them in the long tradition of civil disobedience. Firstly, we will consider civil disobedience in its "classical" form, defining it as the refusal to obey to one or some laws that govern citizens. We will sketch the five major characteristics of this "classical" form of civil disobedience on the basis of Henry David Thoreau's famous essay Resistance to Civil Government (1849). Secondly, we will study two specific but displaced figures that civil disobedience takes in our times - namely, the struggles of migrants in Italy and Greece during the year 2010 and the fights of the English ecologist group Climate Camp. In so doing, we will highlight the principal transformations of civil disobedience through the study of three innovative axes that we denominate "counter-uses", "active disobediences" and "movements of the intolerable". Our conclusion will be that, in order to understand these contemporary political practices of refusal, we must recognize in the disobedient subject an active "supplement" to the simple act of subtraction from power made in the name of a civil responsibility. ; Le but de cet article est d'analyser quelque pratique contemporaine de refus qui se joue dans le champ de la " politique ", et de la (ré)inscrire dans la longue tradition de la désobéissance civile.

The aim of this article is to analyse some contemporary practice of refusal in the field of 'politics', and to (re) embrace the long tradition of civil disobedience. ; The aim of this article is to analyse some of the most important contemporary practices of refusal that take place in the field of "politics", and to (re)inscribe them in the long tradition of civil disobedience. Firstly, we will consider civil disobedience in its "classical" form, defining it as the refusal to obey to one or some laws that govern citizens. We will sketch the five major characteristics of this "classical" form of civil disobedience on the basis of Henry David Thoreau's famous essay Resistance to Civil Government (1849). Secondly, we will study two specific but displaced figures that civil disobedience takes in our times - namely, the struggles of migrants in Italy and Greece during the year 2010 and the fights of the English ecologist group Climate Camp. In so doing, we will highlight the principal transformations of civil disobedience through the study of three innovative axes that we denominate "counter-uses", "active disobediences" and "movements of the intolerable". Our conclusion will be that, in order to understand these contemporary political practices of refusal, we must recognize in the disobedient subject an active "supplement" to the simple act of subtraction from power made in the name of a civil responsibility. ; The aim of this article is to analyse some contemporary practice of refusal in the field of 'politics', and to (re) embrace the long tradition of civil disobedience. ; Le but de cet article est d'analyser quelque pratique contemporaine de refus qui se joue dans le champ de la " politique ", et de la (ré)inscrire dans la longue tradition de la désobéissance civile.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces: An Introduction -- Part I: The Conditions of Being Political -- 2 International Political Sociology and Problematising Critique: Interview with Claudia Aradau, Jason Dittmer, Jef Huysmans and Debbie Lisle -- Part II: Migrant Spaces -- 3 The Multiple Genealogies of Abolitionism: Undoing the Detractive Rights' Logics and the Reform-Revolution Dichotomy -- 4 Unruly Migrations, Abolitionist Alternatives -- 5 CommemorAction -- 6 Affect, Uncertainty and Exhaustion: Methodological Reflections on Migration Struggles and Governance -- Part III: Affective Solidarities -- 7 Drowned World: Imagined Futures and Collective Movements -- 8 Senses of Togetherness in a Covid City -- 9 Foreignness/Forensis: Burdened Entanglement in the Black Mediterranean -- 10 The Libidinal Lives of Statues -- Part IV: Emergent Politics -- 11 Examining Emerging Xenophobic Nationalism in Sweden: Transformations Between 'Good' and 'Bad' Civil Society -- 12 Examining the Limits of the Hospitable Nation: Hosting Schemes and Asylum Seeker's Perspectives on Destitution -- 13 The Paradox of Anthropocene Inaction: Knowledge Production, Mobilisation and the Securitisation of Social Relations -- 14 From Muscular Nationalisms to Struggles for Freedom: Interview with Nicholas De Genova and Nandita Sharma -- 15 Afterword: Planetary Movements -- Index.

AbstractThis article proposes border abolitionism as both a political and an analytical framework for deepening critiques of border, migration, and asylum regimes worldwide. Abolitionist perspectives have been associated primarily with questions of criminalization and mass incarceration and thus articulated as a project of prison abolitionism. Importantly, migrant detention and deportation comprise another major pillar of the entrenchment of the carceral state. While critical migration scholarship and No Borders activism have been confronted with the increasing criminalization of immigration and a more general punitive turn in immigration enforcement, engagements with carceral abolitionist perspectives have largely been quite recent. Seemingly disparate struggles increasingly bring into sharper focus a multifaceted critique of what we call the confinement continuum. Not reducible to detention in migrant jails, the confinement continuum is the nexus of heterogeneous modes of confinement that migrants experience, from the fundamental condition of being stuck or trapped in a border zone to the consequent forms of border violence, as well as other forms of coercion that characterize the more general racialized sociopolitical condition of migrant subordination far beyond any physical border site and encompassing the full spectrum of migrant everyday life. Thus, migrants' and refugees' struggles and demands exceed a narrow focus on borders alone and frequently enact an incipient politics of abolitionism: migrants and refugees challenge the interlocking bordering mechanisms affecting them while always also repudiating and resisting the biopolitical constrictions that confine them to degraded conditions of life and articulating broader claims for social justice and visions of new and better ways of life.

Coordinated and Edited by: N De Genova, M Tazzioli Co-Authored by: Claudia Aradau, Brenna Bhandar, Manuela Bojadzijev, Josue David Cisneros, N De Genova, Julia Eckert, Elena Fontanari, Tanya Golash-Boza, Jef Huysmans, Shahram Khosravi, Clara Lecadet, Patrisia Macías-Rojas, Federica Mazzara, Anne McNevin, Peter Nyers, Stephan Scheel, Nandita Sharma, Maurice Stierl, Vicki Squire, M Tazzioli, Huub van Baar and William Walters

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The archives of migration are piecemeal and scattered. This is both an epistemological problem, and a matter of political concern in an international order that forces people to migrate, racializes them, and renders them subject to violence. In response, we explore the potential of counter-archiving migration. First, we explain why archives matter politically, and consider which traces of migration are stored and which are absent or lost. Second, we develop a methodology for counter-archiving migration. Third, we illustrate a process of counter-archiving, taking protests and violent evictions outside the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offices as an analytical lens. We begin with an "along the grain" reading of official archives; we then turn to ethnography to trace the memories, practices, and material remnants of migrants' struggles. Our analysis makes the case for counter-archival work in and beyond the field of migration. We argue that this approach serves to disrupt the epistemic violence of classification systems and categories associated with border violence; to chart the contestations and transformations of the global order from below; and to articulate new horizons of justice.