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This workshop aims to reflect on how frontier spaces, and the violence that characterizes them, relate to the political geographic organization of space. We propose to think about the frontier as a transversal political technology. A technology that is central to the production and definition of three main elements around which polities and politics are built and ordered: relations of subjectivity (and thus of sovereignty); property and ownership – both in its economic and anthropological/sociocultural dimensions; and community.

The workshop will ask the following questions: what kind of political work does the frontier do? How does the epistemological and practical politics of the frontier shape the configurations of power and political orders?

Conrad Schetter will contribute empirical and conceptual insights and share his reflections during the workshop.

Speakers:

• Claudio Minca, University of Bologna
• Francesco Buscemi, University of Bologna
• Matteo Proto, University of Bologna
• Timothy Raeymaekers, University of Bologna
• Noam Leshem, Durham University
• Michael Watts, University of California
• Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, University of Bari
• Asebe Regassa Debelo, Universität Zürich
• Michael Eilenberg, Aarhus University
• Jasnea Sarma, Universität Zürich
• Conrad Schetter, bicc

Moderation:

• Claudio Minca, University of Bologna, Cultural Geographer