GLOBAL UPRISING: Afterlives of Uprising II: Borders, Mobility, Movements

Global Uprising  // A year-long series 2020-2021:

Global Uprising is a year-long series that revolves around one question: how do we rethink collective action from our present?  Taking the current anti-racist uprising in America and the tenth anniversary of the Arab revolts as launching points for a set of workshops this series delves into the global coordinates of uprising today.  Read more about the series here.

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GLOBAL UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS

April 6, 2021 / 12:30-2PM (NYC/EST Time) / Zoom signup

If uprising is not a discrete event but a protracted temporality then how do we account for its various afterlives? For the ways it continues to exact an imprint or effect well after insurrectionary moments have passed?  In particular, how do we factor things like the movement or displacement of people into our readings of uprising? Or, in turn, track the work of uprising in the political geographies of bordering, encampment, or sanctuary? Is there a way of reading migratory movement and its challenge to a waning border regime not just as the fallout but as the continuation of uprising? In other words not just as perceived but actual threats to established order. How, for example, can we read the Caravan of Hope or, its parallel moment in the Great March of Return, as not just the afterlife but the extension or re-formation of long-standing uprisings in Central America and Palestine respectively? What relation is there between what gets called “social movements” and the movement of people across borders? And in turn, how much of today’s counter-mobilization of the right is itself animated by real cracks in racializing mobility regimes?

Join the Kevorkian Center with Asli Igsiz, Leopold Lambert, A. Naomi Paik and discussant Paula Chakravarty on April 6, 2021, at 12:30 pm (EST) to think through these questions and discuss these issues together. To register please follow the link here or copy and paste the link to your browser: bit.ly/NYUKevoGU46

She also published her first book, Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II in 2016 (UNC Press; winner, Best Book in History, AAAS 2018; runner-up, John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies, ASA, 2017), as well as articles, opinion pieces, and interviews in a range of academic and public-facing venues. As a board member of the Radical History Review, she has co-edited three special issues of the journal—on “Militarism and Capitalism (Winter 2019), “Radical Histories of Sanctuary” (Fall 2019), and “Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination” (Spring 2020)—and will coedit “Against the Anthropocene” with Ashley Dawson (Winter 2023). Collaborating with Gerry Cadava and Cat Ramirez, she is also coediting the “Borderlands” section of Public Books. She is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the HRI-Mellon faculty fellow in Legal Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Studies Resident Associate for the Initiative on “Abolition.” Her research and teaching interests include comparative ethnic studies; U.S. imperialism; U.S. militarism; social and cultural approaches to legal studies; transnational and women of color feminisms; carceral spaces; and labor, race, and migration.

Her books include Race, Empire and the Crisis of the Subprime (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), and Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008). She serves on the executive board of the NYU Association for University Professors (AAUP), and is affiliated faculty at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, South Asia @ NYU, and the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Accommodation requests related to a disability should be sent to kevorkian.center@nyu.edu by March 30, 20201. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests. A captioned version of this presentation will also be made available within a month to our Youtube page.

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