«REFUGEE» CRISIS AND POST-NATION BORDER ZONES: IDENTIFYING NEW BIOPOLITICAL REALITIES
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2016, Vol 271, Issue 259
Abstract
The so-called «refugee» crisis in Europe is a crisis of borders as a racialized regime of visibility. In the post-national constellation that has come to define the continent since the fall of the Berlin Wall, bodies do not cross borders, but borders cross them. The identification of bodies with territories inherent to the nation paradigm and its power constellations has been partly undone by post-national paradigms in which certain bodies are not immutably identified with certain territories and certain power constellations. Post-national bodies have become territorialities that power may but must not integrate, yet will always mark: bodies whose relations to borders are forever sliding. From this sliding arise the spectres of bodies without orders to create a twofold uncanny (un-HEIM-lich): that of being haunted by bodies without orders as well as that of becoming a body without orders. The paper looks at how the «refugee» crisis and Europe’s haunting by bodies without orders mark new biopolitical realities. It analyzes this crisis as symptomatic of a transition from biopolitics that are no longer reliant on othering through visual stigmatization and phenotypes, but implement their control regimes instead through the spectacles of extended post-nation border zones that are increasingly replacing and theoretically undermining traditional notions of bodies, biopolitics and borders as fortified demarcation lines defining the nation.
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S. Weier
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