Introducing Manus Prison theory: knowing border violence

Tofighian, Omid

doi:10.1080/14747731.2020.1713547

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“…The Syrian state's weaponisation of citizenship to discipline the Kurds dates back to the early 1960s, when a population census was ordered in the north-eastern Cizîre (Jazeera) province, bordering the Kurdish regions of Iraq and Turkey, by presidential decree, after which the citizenship of at least 120,000 Kurds, who could not provide evidence of Syrian residency before 1945, was revoked. Further status distinctions were made between makhtumin (unregistered) or ajanib (foreigner) (Tejel 2009). Citizenship statuses were inherited by children via their fathers, but not all marriages were recognised (Schmidinger 2018).…”

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Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution

Dirik

2021

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This article discusses radical democratic citizenship in the context of the 'Rojava Revolution', an ongoing society-building effort that emerged in majority Kurdish regions in the context of the Syrian war. It describes aspects of the political vision of Abdullah Öcalan, as interpreted and applied by activists involved in the democratic self-governance system in Rojava (northern Syria), since 2012. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the region, the article focuses on the ways in which activists frame their revolution and notions of radical democratic citizenship as consciousness-raising efforts against the state system. Centering the role of educational institutions, it argues that theoretical discussions within the Kurdish freedom movement seek to emancipate political action from state-centric ways of articulating political will, justice demands, and wider geopolitical interests. Lastly, it encourages studying radical democracy efforts by taking seriously the political vocabularies, everyday practices, and long-term perspectives advanced in collective self-organisation from below.

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Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution

Dirik

2021

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“…The categories of breaches under the Code and its 'perverse preoccupation with the subject of manners [and behaviour] are also consistent with colonial, civilising discourses', which require racialised 'others' to learn from and adopt the customs of the new host state over their own cultures (Vogl and Methven 2015: 179). This should come as no surprise in an Australian settler state, which was 'founded and sustained on colonial violence' (Giannacopoulos 2017, Tofighian 2020 against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including massacres and deaths in custody, a denial of culture and resources, dispossession, disproportionate institutionalisation and over-incarceration, each justified 'as a "civilising" strategy for the creation of the settler state' (Nettleback and Ryan 2018: 49). (Morrison 2013: para.…”

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Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Refugees in Australia

Vogl

Methven

2020

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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This article critically examines techniques employed by the Australian state to expand its control of refugees and asylum seekers living in Australia. In particular, it analyses the operation of Australia’s unique Asylum Seeker Code of Behaviour, which asylum seekers who arrive by boat must sign in order to be released from mandatory immigration detention, with reference to an original dataset of allegations made under the Code. We argue that the Code and the regime of visa cancellation and re-detention powers of which it forms a part are manifestations of what Beckett and Murakawa call the ‘shadow carceral state’, whereby punitive state power is extended beyond prison walls through the blurring of civil, administrative and criminal legal authority. The Code contributes to Australia’s apparatus of refugee deterrence by adding to it a brutal system of surveillance, visa cancellation and denial of services for asylum seekers living in the community.

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“…Her two-channel video Remain (2018), filmed on Manus in Papua New Guinea (PNG), had exploded Australian theories that the refugees abandoned on Manus following the closure of the detention centre in 2017 were safe. In the opening sequence, then-detainee and artist Behrouz Boochani stands by a waterfall in Manus PNG, smoking a cigarette and uses the term 'green hell' to refer to the cruel contradiction between the miserable and dangerous conditions of the Manus offshore detention project and the lush tropical beauty of the Pacific Island on which it was located (Tofighian, 2020). In this sequence he is thinking specifically about a fellow detainee who drowned in the waterfall.…”

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Green Hell: Detention, art, and activism in an English landscape

Donald

Hayon

2022

Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History

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This paper revolves on the carceral practices of Morton Hall IRC (Immigration Removal Centre) and of the role of visual imagery in the campaigns against them. Morton Hall is located in Lincolnshire, a rural county in England with a long history of agricultural innovation. It observes and debates a sense of the dissonance between institution and location that Morton Hall shared with Manus Island in the Pacific, the site of another postcolonial prison camp also in a beautiful setting. We interrogate how the legacies of British colonialism in the Pacific might help to explain that shared incongruity between function and place. We discuss a public initiative that aimed to give artistic and activist expression to these insights by highlighting the physical, historical, and emotional connections between Lincoln, the surrounding countryside, and the IRC. The aim of this planned event, The Big Walk, was to show that there is no absolute spatial disconnect between places of incarceration and places of freedom. In describing and analysing the cultural legacy of the planned event, curtailed by the 2020 pandemic, we draw on the wider oeuvre of British-Croatian artist, Natasha Davis, which include a film (2020) commissioned to replace the Walk and yet draw attention to the landscape as layered by time and memory, a landscape that yields ups a cross-temporal narrative spored beneath our feet.

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Introducing Manus Prison theory: knowing border violence

Cited by 25 publications

References 44 publications

Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution

Stateless citizenship: ‘radical democracy as consciousness-raising’ in the Rojava revolution

Life in the Shadow Carceral State: Surveillance and Control of Refugees in Australia

Green Hell: Detention, art, and activism in an English landscape

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