Ten Theses on Politics

The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North

“…Yet, given that most focus, most energy and most resources are directed at external migration relations, the rigidity of this legal order of places and functions, of illegality and legality of access, is exposed. This order, with its particular norm imposition, is dominance amounting to violence in the sense that Butler (1999) (Rancière, 2001). …”

Non-Territorial Spaces of Belarusian Political Nomadism

“…<..> Now, the specificity of political dissensus is that its partners are no more constituted than is the object or stage of discussion itself." 35 The parties that had no part become visible. What was unsayable, becomes heard.…”

Symposium: The Kilburn Manifesto: After Neoliberalism?

“…There is the politics in Latin America and its assertion of multipolarity in opposition to the global hegemony of the USA (in a conference of Debates y Combates in Buenos Aires I wrestled with the question of how different does a political trajectory have to be to warrant the claim of multipolarity). (9) And it made me also want to return to old, but ongoing, debates with Ernesto Laclau. (10) I mention all this because it is a nice way of making a point that I'm always going on about-that theoretical and conceptual work can be propelled by political questions and engagement.…”

“…The poor, in particular, are not only materially disadvantaged but actively despised and divided (especially so in the case of the white working class). (9) "Los significados de la multiplicidad", Modernidades múltiples en un mundo multipolar, Debates y Combates, Secretaria de la Cultura de la Presidencia de la Nación, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 11-12 October 2012. (10) See Massey D, 1992, "Politics and space/time" New Left Review, number 196, NovemberDecember, pp 65-84.…”

“…Drawing on Ranciere the supplement is those parts of the population that have no part. (9) Unpaid care is that which cannot be seen and cannot be heard in neoliberal framings of the world. Ranicere argues that politics resides in the supplement; in its ability to disrupt the ordered legitimacy of economy and neoliberal political discourse.…”