Where asylum-seekers wait: feminist counter-topographies of sites between states

Mountz, Alison

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2011.566370

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“…In this way, "the topological spatialities of the camp-as-a-threshold" thereby become "a constitutive element of the overall biopolitical Nazi project of 'protective custody' and For Gregory or Giaccaria and Minca, topological and topographical spatialities operate according to different logics and these spatial logics are brought into tension in the camp-asthreshold. For Mountz (2011), in contrast, detaining asylum-seekers in extra-territorial detention 14 centers is the spatial expression of sovereignty's topology. Likewise, Belcher et al (2008) contrast the topology of the exception, in which the law and its suspension become indistinguishable, to the "topographical juridical-territorial order" that it produces.…”

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“…When geographers and other social scientists introduce the concept of topology in their texts, they often do so by way of a contrast to topographical space (e.g., Belcher et al 2008;Amin, 2002;Giaccarria and Minca, 2012;Hinchcliffe et al, 2012;Mountz, 2011;Blum and Secor, 2011;Harvey, 2012;Whatmore and Thorne, 1998)…”

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Towards a post-mathematical topology

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2013

Progress in Human Geography

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Pre-proof version.Abstract: This paper aims to bring clarity to the term topology as it has been deployed in human geography. We summarize the insights that geographers have garnered from thinking topologically about space and power. We find that many deployments of topology both overstretch topology's conceptual merit and limit its insights for spatial thinking. We show how topology, with its structuralist and modernist baggage, requires some theoretical reworking to be put to work by poststructuralist geographers. Our purpose is not to consolidate a specific topological approach for geographers, but to call for an ongoing consideration of what topology offers poststructuralist spatial theories.

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Section: The Limits Of Topology Versus Topographymentioning

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Towards a post-mathematical topology

Martin

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2013

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“…Prison scholars have long recognised the pains associated with the slow passage of time in prison (Medlicott, 1999), but what characterises contemporary carceral systems is a new type of relationship between carceral institutions and time T the institutionalised disposal of time (Jeffrey, 2010): the organised warehousing of sections of the global population forced to wait purposelessly on the margins of developed economies in prisons, camps, slums and detention centres in response to global politico-economic conditions. The calibration of carceral space to accommodate this wastage, over and above aspirations to reform or even punish the incarcerated, is a hallmark of the neoliberal carceral landscape (for work on waiting in incarceration see Conlon, 2011;Schuster, 2011;Mountz, 2011;Hyndman and Giles, 2011;Armstrong 2015). Such wastage of human life demands that we urgently find ways of addressing how are T I…”

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“…The calibration of carceral space to accommodate this wastage, over and above aspirations to reform or even punish the incarcerated, is a hallmark of the neoliberal carceral landscape (for work on waiting in incarceration see Conlon, 2011;Schuster, 2011;Mountz, 2011;Hyndman and Giles, 2011;Armstrong 2015). Such wastage of human life demands that we urgently find ways of addressing how are T I…”

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Carceral circuitry

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Moran

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Progress in Human Geography

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Despite the popular impression of prisons and other carceral spaces as disconnected from broader social systems, they are traversed by various circulations that reach within and beyond their boundaries. This paper opens a new analytical window onto this reality, developing the concept of D H teasing apart the emerging carceral landscape to provide a new critical epistemology for carceral geographies. In so doing, a meta-institutional agenda for critical carceral geography is derived, and possible ways to short-circuit carceral systems are revealed. KeywordsCarceral geography, circuit, circulation, counter-mapping, prison, institution. Nick Gill 1 , Deirdre Conlon, Dominique Moran and Andrew BurridgePlease note: the definitive version of this paper will appear in the journal Progress in Human Geography. This version is a pre-print, pre-proof version.1 Corresponding author, University of Exeter, UK. 2 Carceral Circuitry: Opening RemarksIn February 2016 the BBC (2016) reported the increasing use of drones to fly drugs, mobile phones and other contraband into British prisons. While no instances of smuggling by drones were detected in 2013, by 2015 33 instances had been recorded. The biggest find, in December 2015, featured a drone, drugs, a mobile phone, a phone charger and USB cards. Drone flights have reportedly become so common, especially during night hours, that prison staff find them unremarkable (The Guardian, 2016a). Dronedrops, alongside the stillincreasingly supplementing in-person smuggling such as during visits; with services on the outside.The rise of what the UK prison authorities call (The Guardian, 2016a) illustrates the unprecedented pressure that the prison boundary is under. The popular impression of prisons as impervious, closed-in on themselves and cut-off from the wider world is being challenged by rising prison populations and technological innovations that have precipitated all manner of mobilities and circulations both within prison walls and across them. Geographers have critically discussed G in order to call attention to this inter-connectedness of prisons and other carceral spaces (Moran, 2015;Fortes, 2015; although see Schliehe, forthcoming, for a recovery of Goff T intention has been to counter the imagination of a closed-off and sealed carceral institution, discussing instead the liminal spaces prisons (Moran, 2015: 90).These interventions beg the question of what an meta-institutional geography of the carceral would look like, meaning not simply a geography beyond them, combining supra-, sub-, inter-, intra-and extra-institutional imaginaries and perspectives. Carceral geography is in a strong positon to address such a question because, unlike prison studies, the subject of carcerality is not approached via an institutional lens at the level of the discipline itself. Rather, carceral geographers have already been at pains to emphasise the continuities that stretch across institutional boundaries (Allspach, 2010;Moran, 2015;Moran et al, 2014) providing an ideal foundation for ...

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“…Massey (1999) argues therefore that, rather than viewing place-based communities as static, bounded, or hermetically sealed, researchers need to develop more subtle accounts of the networks and webs of connection through which places and place-based identities are reproduced. A social topographic approach provides just such an innovative framework for transcending conventional comparative perspectives to explore qualitatively some of the relationships that connect places (Katz, 2001a, b;Mountz, 2011). The geographical term topography refers to the detailed description of a particular location and the totality of the features that comprise the landscape itself.…”

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Mapping the meaning of ‘difference’ in Europe: A social topography of prejudice

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This paper draws on original empirical research to investigate popular understandings of prejudice in two national contexts: Poland and the United Kingdom. The paper demonstrates how common-sense meanings of prejudice are inflected by the specific histories and geographies of each place: framed in terms of 'distance' (Poland) and 'proximity' (United Kingdom), respectively. Yet, by treating these national contexts as nodes and linking them analytically the paper also exposes a connectedness in these definitions which brings into relief the common processes that produce prejudice. The paper then explores how interlinkages between the United Kingdom and Poland within the wider context of the European Union are producing -and circulating through the emerging international currency of 'political correctness' -a common critique of equality legislation and a belief that popular concerns about the way national contexts are perceived to be changing as a consequence of super mobility and super diversity are being silenced. This raises a real risk that in the context of European austerity and associated levels of socioeconomic insecurity, negative attitudes and conservative values may begin to be represented as popular normative standards which transcend national contexts to justify harsher political responses towards minorities. As such, the paper concludes by making a case for prejudice reduction strategies to receive much greater priority in both national and European contexts.

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Where asylum-seekers wait: feminist counter-topographies of sites between states

Cited by 261 publications

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Towards a post-mathematical topology

Towards a post-mathematical topology

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