Our full seminar schedule for spring term 2015, welcome to Malmö University if you pass by:
In the project “Undocumented children’s rights claims” we explore rights-claiming among undocumented children and their families in light of theoretical and practical perspectives (see https://blogg.mah.se/undocumentedmigrants). The seminars below are conducted in the spring 2015 within the research project and they are open to all. Seminars are in English and take place at Malmö University in the conference room in the Gäddan-house (room 355). The time is 10-13. If you would like to get the texts in advance to read, or present one of them, or would like to present your own work, please contact anna.lundberg@mah.se.
Welcome! Bring your own lunch.
Themes for spring 2015:
Human rights and sanctuaries
January 8
Lippert, Randy K., and Sean Rehaag, eds. Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Movements. (2012) Routledge (a selection of articles).
January 15
Walters William. Deportation, expulsion, and the international police of aliens. Citizenship Studies. 2002;6(3):265-
Bagelman, Jennifer. Sanctuary A Politics of Ease? Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 2013;38(1):49-62.
Humanitarianism and human rights
January 29
Fassin, Didier. Humanitarianism as a politics of life. Public Culture 2007;19(3):499-520.
Fassin Didier. Another politics of life is possible. Theory, Culture & Society. 2009;26(5):44-60.
Fassin Didier. Humanitarian reason: A moral history of the present times (available as E-book). (2012) Berkeley: University of California Press (a selection of chapters).
Squire, Vicki. Desert ‘trash’: Posthumanism, border struggles, and humanitarian politics. Political Geography, 2014;39:11-21.
Social movements and human rights
February 5
Della Porta, Donatella; Diani, Mario. Social movements: An introduction. (2009) John Wiley & Sons (a selection of chapters).
Meewisse, Anna. Organizational innovation in the Swedish welfare state. Critical Social Policy, 2008:28.2:187-210.
Action, communication and human rights
February 26
Habermas, Jürgen Theory of Communicative Action Chapter 3 volume 1. (1984)
Habermas, Jürgen Theory of Communicative Action Chapter 6 volume 2. (1984)
March 5
Andrijasevic, Rutvica, and Bridget Anderson. “Conflicts of mobility: Migration, labour and political subjectivities.” Subjectivity1 (2009): 363-366.
Andrijasevic, Rutvica. ”Sex on the move: gender, subjectivity and differential inclusion.” Subjectivity1 (2009): 389-406.
March 12
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Can the subaltern speak? (1988).
Human rights, dislocation and revolution
March 19
Laclau, Ernesto. New reflections on the revolution of our time (1990); The rhetorical foundations of society (2014) Verso (a selection of chapters).
Tyler, Imogen. Revolting subjects: social abjection and resistance in neoliberal Britain. (2013) Zed books (a selection of chapters).
Human rights, revolution and constitution
March 26
Rua Wall, Illan. Human rights and constituent power: without model or warranty (2013) Routledge (a selection of chapters).
Spång, Mikael. Constituent power and constitutional order: above, within and beside the constitution (2014) Palgrave Macmillan (a selection of chapters).
The meaning of rights (note three weeks)
April 2; April 16; April 23
Douzinas, Costas trilogy The End of Human Rights (2000); Human Rights and Empire (2007); and The Radical Philosophy of Rights (2015) (a selection of chapters).
April 30
Douzinas, Costas; Gearty, Conor (ed.). The meanings of rights: the philosophy and social theory of human rights (a selection of chapters).
May 7
Stone, Matthew, Illan rua Wall, and Costas Douzinas (ed.) New critical legal thinking: law and the political (2012) Taylor & Francis (a selection of chapters).
Gender, sexuality and migration
May 14
Luibhéid, Eithne, et al. Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant (2013) University of Minnesota Press (a selection of chapters).
Keshavarz Mahmoud Material Articulations from and of Undocumentedness (PhD project Malmö University).
Critical childhood studies (Away days, internal discussion in the research group).
May 21
Quennerstedt, Ann. “Children’s rights research moving into the future-challenges on the way forward.” The International Journal of Children’s Rights2 (2013): 233-247.
Reynaert, Didier, Maria Bouverne-de-Bie, and Stijn Vandevelde. ”A review of children’s rights literature since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.” Childhood4 (2009): 518-534.
Reynaert, Didier, Maria De Bie, and Stijn Vandevelde. ”Between ’believers’ and ’opponents’: critical discussions on children’s rights.” The International Journal of Children’s Rights1 (2012): 1-15.
Human rights and power
June 4
Foucault, Michel. The subject and power. Critical inquiry, 1982, 777-795.