[NYU Kevorkian Center] GLOBAL UPRISING: AFTERLIVES OF UPRISING II: BORDERS, MOBILITY, MOVEMENTS

Speakers: Aslı Iğsız (NYU), Leopold Lambert (The Funambulist), A. Naomi Paik (U-Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and discussant Paula Chakravartty (NYU)

Abstract: 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?

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