Disjointed knowledges, obfuscated visibility. Border controls at the French-Italian Alpine border

Tazzioli, Martina

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102155

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“…This spatial grounding of emotions shifts the focus onto the body/ies as loci at which “geopolitical power is made and contested” (Williams & Massaro, 2013, p. 752) and, crucially, is co‐constituted with the international (Dowler & Sharp, 2001). This complements important work by feminist scholars – champions in foregrounding those bodies frequently overlooked in analyses of global politics, including women, young people, and migrants (Benwell & Hopkins, 2016; Tazzioli, 2020). Their work has re‐inserted these bodies into accounts of geopolitics and in doing so lessened the hegemony of “big picture” political explanations (Dowler & Sharp, 2014) as well as widened the realm of the geopolitical (Koopman, 2011).…”

Section: Emotionscapes and Interpretive Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 61%

“Emotionscapes of geopolitics”: Interpreting in the United Nations Security Council

Jones

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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The agency of interpreters has been kept out of view in human geography. This paper corrects this by focusing on embodied interpretation: bodies, freighted with their own relations, expectations, and experiences in the context of “emotionscapes,” settings for emotional communication. Conceptually, “emotionscapes” enable the exploration of the potentiality of an emotion in its spatial setting. Emotionally expressive behaviour is a process of the emotion; a potentiality to be realised. Emotions are distinctively connected to specific sites and spaces. This potentiality shifts the analytical focus away from what emotion is to what emotion can do to the alteration or reproduction of relations. I argue that this is vitally important to understanding geopolitical exchange, that is, how global politics is made and remade. However, the potentiality of emotions is made more complicated when interpretive bodies are involved in geopolitical exchange. They are intrinsic to the relational fluxes, currents, and flows of emotion – its potentialities – they identify and relay emotionally laden language of others for others in geopolitical communication. They observe, relay, and mutate emotional potentiality in “emotionscapes.” In doing so, they wrestle with more than just words. They seek to capture emotions and geopolitics between real‐life people in real places. Understanding their endeavour should challenge us therefore to [re]consider geopolitical exchange in “emotionscapes” and the mediatory and performative roles played by interpretive bodies in these spaces of geopolitical knowledge production. This is my key purpose in this paper. Underpinning the paper’s conceptual ideas are qualitative data on the role of interpretive bodies in realising emotional potentialities in the “emotionscape” of the UN Security Council in New York, arguably the most high‐profile geopolitical institution.

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Section: Emotionscapes and Interpretive Bodiesmentioning

confidence: 61%

“Emotionscapes of geopolitics”: Interpreting in the United Nations Security Council

Jones

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…A similar set of concepts examines intentional inaction but primarily focuses on policy implementation (outputs) rather than policymaking (inputs). Although coming at it from different disciplinary perspectives, conceptualizations of 'non-recording' (Rozakou, 2017), 'irregularity as statecraft' (Kalir and Van Schendel, 2017), 'obfuscation' (Tazzioli, 2020) and 'strategic ignorance' (Scheel and Ustek-Spilda, 2019) all focus on the (non-)creation and suppression of data as part of a wider politics of (non)-knowledge. They evidence how knowledge is intentionally avoided, suppressed, ignored or silenced by state actors tasked with implementing migration policies to increase their legitimacy in inter-actor dynamics or to avoid responsibility and accountability.…”

Section: ) Intentional Inaction In Policy Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic non-regulation as migration governance

Natter,

Norman,

Stel

2023

Mig. Pol.

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Over the last decade, critical migration scholarship has been increasingly concerned with how state actors in both the Global South and Global North deploy forms of inaction and ambivalent action to govern migrants. Scholars have mobilized and developed concepts to capture such strategic non-regulation, ranging from notions of standoffishness, ignorance, indifference, ambiguity, adhocracy, and informality in political science, IR and sociology, to necropolitics, ignorance, opacity, obfuscation, non-recording and liminality in anthropology, socio-legal studies and political geography. Scholars thus seem to agree that the strategic use of non-regulation by state actors is a significant aspect of migration governance. Yet, conceptual and methodological advances remain fragmented and scattered across geographical regions and disciplines. This paper argues that much can be gained by putting the different conceptual and methodological innovations on strategic non-regulation into dialogue. First, consolidating insights from different bodies of scholarly work moves analyses of strategic non-regulation from the fringes of migration scholarship to its center and demonstrates that strategic non-regulation is a core feature of migration governance. Second, bringing these different works together enables us to synthesize the variety of analytical strategies that scholars have devised to empirically locate the elusive phenomenon of strategic non-regulation. Overcoming disciplinary and geographical divides in the study of strategic non-regulation will also be key to advance broader social science debates on the political functionality of policy failure and on the interplay between state capacity and political will - in migration governance but also beyond.

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“…The gendarmes obligated a Nigerian man to undergo a urine test in the train station of the Italian village of Bardonecchia, inside a room assigned to a local NGO carrying out humanitarian assistance for migrants on the move from Italy to France. The police action was described as unnecessarily aggressive, not only against the Nigerian man, but also against NGO volunteers (Bauducco, 2018; Tazzioli, 2018).…”

Section: Managing Asylum Seekers’ Mobility At the French/italian Border: Trespassing The Border Isolating Border Areasmentioning

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Desired freight and undesired migrants: Security and market forces at internal EU borders

Vergnano

2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Based on a comparison between two intra-EU border securitization processes in the aftermath of the so-called EU “refugee crisis” of 2015, this article aims to contribute to literature on migration control by stressing the role that market-security dynamics play in state borderwork. The comparison between the French/Italian and the Austrian/Italian borders suggests that the containment of undesired mobility may be better understood in light of economic processes (shared commercial interests between states and the interests of the security industry) whose dimensions are easily quantifiable and comparable but rarely taken into account in research on borders and migration. The analysis highlights that these economic processes, together with other historical, political, social and geomorphological factors, are crucial to explain the emergence of different “local border control regimes” in terms of police cooperation, states’ sovereignty practices and the reconfiguration of migratory routes. As an additional argument, the article brings out the nuances of the EU’s uneven core-periphery dynamics with respect to migration management. Indeed, it shows the active role of peripheral countries, such as Italy, in negotiating, contesting, or actively assuming their role of migration “gatekeepers”.

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Disjointed knowledges, obfuscated visibility. Border controls at the French-Italian Alpine border

Cited by 17 publications

References 53 publications

“Emotionscapes of geopolitics”: Interpreting in the United Nations Security Council

“Emotionscapes of geopolitics”: Interpreting in the United Nations Security Council

Strategic non-regulation as migration governance

Desired freight and undesired migrants: Security and market forces at internal EU borders

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