From Disruption to Transformation: Politicisation at a Distance from the State

Swyngedouw, E

doi:10.1111/anti.12691

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“…However, the disruptive potential associated with migrant activism needs to be analyzed in view of the political sequence that it could set in motion, particularly in view of the alliances between migrant activists and other movements (Swyngedouw, 2021). The potential of alliances and solidarity between migrant grassroots organizations and more mainstream organizations opposing migration and asylum policies as well as other movements requires further research.…”

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‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories

Perolini

2022

Social Movement Studies

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Migrant activists with precarious legal status mobilize against border regimes in Berlin under the label of 'refugees'. They engage in a classification struggle through which they disrupt the legal notion of refugee by reappropriating an externally assigned category. Their struggle is crucial because legal status categories produce an exclusionary system in which only some migrants can obtain residence rights as well as other rights. I contend that migrants, in the context of their mobilization, collectively interpret their structural position vis-a-vis border regimes, characterized by oppression and exclusion. This collective interpretation is associated with the emergence of a refugee* collective identity that disrupts the legal notion of refugee. I argue that migrants mobilize under the label of 'refugee' not only for strategic reasons but also because of their shared beliefs regarding the unfairness of the asylum system. The refugee* collective identity not only disrupts exclusionary legal status categories but also interrupts some of the divisions among migrants that border regimes produce. This article contributes to showing that while migrant activism takes place in a political field that is not chosen by migrants, it has an impact on the regulatory framework that characterizes that political field. Moreover, my findings emphasize the importance of the connections between structural forms of oppression, including regulatory frameworks and classificatory systems, and collective identity processes emerging in the mobilization of subaltern groups.

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‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories

Perolini

2022

Social Movement Studies

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“…Of course, there is no guarantee that transformative movements will grow out of these efforts (Swyngedouw, 2021). But as Avery Gordon reminds us, work that troubles naturalized orders "must take place while you 're still enslaved, imprisoned, indebted, occupied, walled in, commodified, etc" (2011: 16).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars of immigrant rights activism have extensively documented a constantly evolving array of tactics aimed at challenging state regulation of citizenship, rights, and belonging (Patler, 2018; Lauby, 2016; Unzueta Carrasco and Seif, 2014). Scholars attending to post-political conditions note the potential for rupture when migrants appear in public to declare, “We are here, therefore we are from here” (Swyngedouw, 2021: 493). As Swyngedouw argues, this act of presence simultaneously demonstrates the exclusionary nature of hegemonic frameworks for democratic inclusion.…”

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Mixed signals: Understanding the democratic work of narratives in pro-immigrant protests across local policy environments

Huff¹,

Cooke

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The question of how to alter undemocratic environments from within is a central concern of activists and theorists interested in radical democratic change. Illuminating this issue, geographers and others have studied how immigrant rights activists make claims in hostile environments. This scholarship tends to privilege the work of organizations in national or specific metropolitan contexts. We broaden the discussion by attending to hostility in subnational immigration policy environments across the United States and by comparing the “narrative signals” that protesters send in more and less hostile environments, regardless of organizational affiliation. Results show that narratives are shaped by the environments in which they circulate. In hostile environments, however, narrative signals include a broader variety of justifications than the extant literature emphasizes. In such environments, activists justify protest both with appeals to notions of universal human rights and with more limited articulations of community concerns and specific immigrants’ attributes. We argue that while the type of narrative justifications observed in more hostile local environments can undermine democratic politics, they can also disrupt official orderings and contribute to more robust public formation around immigrant rights. Where dehumanizing policy is sharpest, they can amplify immigrant voices in the public sphere and they can draw in participants who might otherwise see themselves as disconnected from immigrant rights struggles. In shedding new light on the geography of environment-narrative dynamics, this article contributes to ongoing explorations of emplaced experiences of political work and the democratic potential of that work in hostile environments.

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“…This may concern the delivery of public services to peripheral regions or the promotion of regional entrepreneurship, e.g., [17][18][19][20][21]. The French-continental approach is rather impact-oriented in its transformative understanding, aiming at social progress beyond the logics of regional competition to overcome the growth paradigm, and to create a new spatiality beyond the polarizing regime changes of the 1980s, e.g., [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36].…”

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Impacts of Social Innovation on Spatiality in Mountain–Lowland Relationships — Trajectories of Two Swiss Regional Initiatives in the Context of New Policy Regimes

Perlik

2021

Sustainability

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This article places the topic of “social innovation” in the context of the paradigm shift of the 1980s. This shift from Fordism to post-Fordism has led to a weakening of the model of the European welfare state. Social innovation has become an instrument to promote regional self-responsibility and entrepreneurial activity by local authorities. The concept of social innovation has become widespread among various disciplines and controversially used by them. Referring to regional and corporate success stories based on the commitment of grassroots movements and civil society has its shortcomings, as the new spatiality regimes show increasing disparities. The article shows the different lines of conflict in the discussion about social innovations and makes suggestions for the specification and delimitation of the concept. Using two case studies on social innovations from mountain regions of Switzerland, based on standardized interviews, including the results of a social network analysis, the article distinguishes between adaptive and transformative social innovations. The adaptive social innovations analysed did not result in changing the inferior position of the regions; however, they prevented even greater destabilization by mobilizing the dynamic actors in the valley to work together. This is helpful for ensuring that the urban majority continues to show solidarity with the population in rural and mountain areas. The constructive interaction between public, private, and civil society institutions is seen as the key factor of social innovation in the European peripheral areas to which most mountain areas belong.

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From Disruption to Transformation: Politicisation at a Distance from the State

Cited by 20 publications

References 18 publications

‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories

‘We are all refugees’: how migrant grassroots activism disrupts exclusionary legal categories

Mixed signals: Understanding the democratic work of narratives in pro-immigrant protests across local policy environments

Impacts of Social Innovation on Spatiality in Mountain–Lowland Relationships — Trajectories of Two Swiss Regional Initiatives in the Context of New Policy Regimes

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