IMeRA Seminaire 1er juin Bailkin-Weiss

Mercredi 1er juin 2016, 10h30-16h30
IMéRA (IEA d’AMU), Salle de conférence
2 place Le Verrier, Marseille
SEMINAIRE
Other bodies and flexible citizenship in State building
(UK, Israel)
Ugandan Asian refugees arriving at Stansted Airport in Britain in 1972.
Invited Speakers :
Jordanna BAILKIN, University of Washington
Meira WEISS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discussants: Benoît Fliche (IDEMEC-MMSH) et Roberto Beneduce (IMéRA-LabexMed, University of Turin)
Séminaire organisé dans le cadre du Cycle sur les migrations "Conscience historique et mémoire
traumatique ou Comment les migrants se souviennent" proposé par Roberto Beneduce, résident IMéRALabexMed, Associate Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology, Dept. of Cultures, Politics, and
Society, University of Turin.
En partenariat avec l'IDEMEC (Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative,
MMSH) et l'IMAf (Institut des mondes africains, MMSH).
Contacts : [email protected] / [email protected]
PROGRAMME
Discussants:
Benoît Fliche (IDEMEC-MMSH) et Roberto Beneduce (IMéRA-LabexMed, University of Turin)
10.30 - 12.30
Meira WEISS, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The politics of the body in Israeli society
The current paper will present the main theses of my last two books
dealing with the politics of the body in Israeli society. In contrast to
"The Chosen Body" - the Jewish soldier, I'll present "The Body of the
Other" - the Palestinian and the immigrant. The two cases will be
analyzed, too, by Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and State of
Exception.
14.30- 16.30
Jordanna BAILKIN, University of Washington
Unsettled: Refugee Camps in Britain Yesterday and Today
This talk considers the long history of refuge in Britain, from the
days of empire to imperial collapse and beyond. Refugee camps –
defined as spaces of aid, but often experienced as spaces of
incarceration – have morphed in the late 20th century into
detention centers for asylum seekers and “illegal aliens." By
exploring the close ties of personnel and policy (as well as material
culture) between these presumably very different kinds of spaces,
we can better understand the genealogy of the ties between
humanitarianism and the security state.