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Danewid's talk contextualizes contemporary border regimes in a broader historical trajectory in which the capitalist state seeks to control the movement of the displaces and the dispossessed. To this end, Danewid develops two main hypotheses. The first is that borders and other forms of mobility control are race making modes of governance in the service of capital. The second argument is that taking this relation seriously requires a shift away from liberal discourses of empathy, sentimentality, humanitarianism and hospitality and towards arguments in favour, not just of border abolition, but more provocatively perhaps, of the state and its constitutive understanding of politics as governance.
Danewid's talk contextualizes contemporary border regimes in a broader historical trajectory in which the capitalist state seeks to control the movement of the displaces and the dispossessed. To this end, Danewid develops two main hypotheses. The first is that borders and other forms of mobility control are race making modes of governance in the service of capital. The second argument is that taking this relation seriously requires a shift away from liberal discourses of empathy, sentimentality, humanitarianism and hospitality and towards arguments in favour, not just of border abolition, but more provocatively perhaps, of the state and its constitutive understanding of politics as governance.