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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">**Please
Circulate Widely**<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><o:p> </o:p><b>Borderzones:
Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra in Conversation</b><br>
Politics, Colonialism, Borders Seminar Series<br>
<br>
7pm, 5th July 2012<br>
The Red Rattler Theatere<br>
7 Faversham St Marrickville, NSW<br>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/378421892196414/">https://www.facebook.com/events/378421892196414/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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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 <span class="textexposedshow">entitled <i>Border
as Method, or, The Multiplication of Labor</i>:</span><br>
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<span class="textexposedshow">"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."</span><br>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><b>Sandro Mezzadra</b> 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 (<a
href="http://uninomade.org/" target="_blank">http://uninomade.org/</a>).</span><br>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><b>Brett Neilson</b> 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 (<a
href="http://transitlabour.asia/" target="_blank">http://transitlabour.asia/</a>).
</span><br>
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<span class="textexposedshow">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 (<a
href="mailto:ketiairport@gmail.com">ketiairport@gmail.com</a>)
or Richard Bailey (<a href="mailto:rb2k@email.com">rb2k@email.com</a>).</span><br>
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<span class="textexposedshow">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. </span>For more information see: <a
href="http://crossbordersydney.org/">
http://crossbordersydney.org/</a><br>
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<span class="textexposedshow">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. </span>
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