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On behalf of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs – oiip
I would like to invite you to the following lecture:
Humanitarian Borderwork
Europe’s borders have become places of suffering and death as safe and legal routes are closed to those fleeing conflict, persecution and poverty. As a result a range of actors from state agencies, humanitarian organisations, volunteer NGOs and individual citizens undertake a range of practices to relieve this suffering and prevent deaths. I call these practices ‘humanitarian borderwork’. Here humanitarian principles concerned with saving lives, alleviating suffering and bearing witness are enacted in border settings. These border in turn are the products of a range of practices by people, organisations and states. They are produced and reproduced through constant work, referred to as borderwork. The enactment of humanitarian principles changes borderwork from work concerned with stopping, defending and securing territory to work concerned with securing lives. This lecture aims to introduce the concept of humanitarian borderwork and analysis if and how it reorients border practices and politics.
Lecturer:
Polly Pallister-Wilkins (University Amsterdam)
Chair:
Saskia Stachowitsch (IPW, University of Vienna / oiip)
Date & Time:
13 June 2018
5.30 pm
Venue:
Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip)
Berggasse 7, 1090 Vienna
Program
Registration
In cooperation with the Department of Political Science (IPW), University of Vienna.
Best regards
Petra Podesser
Austrian Institute for International Affairs - oiip
Berggasse 7, A-1090 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 581 11 06/12
Email: petra.podesser@oiip.ac.at
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