[csaa-forum] Borderzones: Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra in Conversation

[Katie Hepworth]

**Please Circulate Widely**

*Borderzones: Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra in Conversation*
Politics, Colonialism, Borders Seminar Series

7pm, 5th July 2012
The Red Rattler Theatere
7 Faversham St Marrickville, NSW

https://www.facebook.com/events/378421892196414/


Come down to the Rat for the first in a monthly series of seminars on 
the theme of Politics, Colonialism, Borders. The first event will be a 
conversation between Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra on the theme of 
borderzones. The conversation will draw on work from their forthcoming 
book entitled /Border as Method, or, The Multiplication of Labor/:

"Our approach to borders seeks to trace and track the relevance of their 
current proliferation from the point of view of the articulation of 
global processes. This means we do not see borders as devices that 
obstruct or block global flows. Rather we see them as parameters that 
enable the channelling of flows and provide coordinates within which 
flows can be joined or segmented, connected or disconnected. The 
processes of the proliferation of borders and the multiplication of 
labour that we analyse in our work are crucial to the disarticulation of 
the dyad citizen-worker and to the production of new, flexible and 
mobile assemblages of labour markets and citizenship. Contrary to the 
dominant tendency in border studies, even more pronounced after 
September 11, to stress dynamics of exclusion, we focus on the changing 
shape of inclusion that can be analysed assuming the perspective of the 
border. In our attempt to move beyond the binary inclusion/exclusion, 
pointing to the proliferation of subject positions that are neither 
fully included nor fully excluded from the space of citizenship and from 
labour markets, of subjectivities that are neither fully insiders nor 
fully outsiders."

*Sandro Mezzadra* teaches political theory at the University of Bologna 
and is adjunct fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society of the 
University of Western Sydney. In the last decade his work has 
particularly centred on the relations between globalization, migration 
and citizenship as well as on postcolonial theory and criticism. He is 
an active participant in the 'post-workerist' debate and one of the 
founders of the UniNomade network (http://uninomade.org/).

*Brett Neilson* is Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, 
University of Western Sydney. He is the coordinator of the transnational 
research project Transit Labour: Regions, Borders, Circuits 
(http://transitlabour.asia/).

Politics, Colonialism, Borders is a series of monthly seminars organised 
by the Crossborder Collective that aim to bring together activists and 
academics to examine local and international movements and debates in 
order to develop a counter-politics of the border beyond the eradication 
of mandatory detention. In our view, any such political movement must 
confront and resist Australia's colonial history and the ongoing 
dispossession of indigenous peoples. If you would like to get involved 
in future seminars, please email Katie Hepworth (ketiairport at gmail.com 
<mailto:ketiairport at gmail.com>) or Richard Bailey (rb2k at email.com 
<mailto:rb2k at email.com>).

The CBC is a Sydney based group that has been working on projects around 
race, the border, migration and the state for around two years. In the 
past, the Cross Border Collective has organised conferences, events, 
forums, protest and direct action. For more information see: 
http://crossbordersydney.org/ <http://crossbordersydney.org/>

Entry is by gold coin donations. Doors will open at 18:30 for a 19:00 
start. For those attending the Life in Limbo opening at UTS beforehand, 
there are direct buses from Railway Square to Marrickville, or you can 
take the train to Sydenham Station.
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