Global Governmentality and graduated sovereignty: National belonging among poor migrants in ecuador

Lawson, Victoria

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“…Migration is not a one-dimensional process; rather, people negotiate mobility in terms of their simultaneous responsibilities for paid work and care (Hanson and Pratt 1995;Radcliffe 1991). Case studies across the globe demonstrate that the implications of migration are inseparable from shifting politicaleconomic conditions and place-specific hierarchies of race, class, and gender (Chant 1992;Lawson 2002). Research on migrant women in both Indonesia and Mexico finds that poor women migrate for job opportunities in export processing only to find that their opportunities for upward mobility are curtailed by gender, class, and race ideologies.…”

Section: Migrating For Inclusive Development?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing Spaces of Inclusive Development

Lawson

2010

Economic Geography

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The "World Development Report 2009" discusses a crucial development challenge-that of understanding spatially uneven development. The report lays out a series of policy responses to spatial unevenness that are intended to mobilize the growth-enhancing advantages of unbalanced development while ensuring inclusive development. However, the report mobilizes a narrow view of economic development that is disconnected from place, politics, and society. In geography, which lends its name to the report, economies are theorized as embedded-as produced in and through space, rather than merely on it. Geography and spatial patterns are constitutive coproducers of political-economic processes, not just outcomes. I elaborate how a critical geographic understanding of an "everywhere embedded economy" ( Peck 2005 ) highlights the inseparability of economic processes from the social, political, historical, and geographic contexts which give them meaning. I connect the idea of embedded economy to a consideration of centrality of care to a humane and inclusive development. I argue that the report's emphasis on labor mobility as a key mechanism for enhancing development ignores the global division of care work that is itself built on the invisibility and undervaluation of care in mainstream versions of economic development. I conclude that "thinning borders" will not resolve questions of inequality but rather will allow those who are more powerful to exploit the resultant power differentials expressed in migration and care deficits across the globe. Copyright (c) 2010 Clark University.

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Section: Migrating For Inclusive Development?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing Spaces of Inclusive Development

Lawson

2010

Economic Geography

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“…Nonetheless, it remains significant that this 'messy composite' has found expression among nondiasporic, non-border, political subjects. Thus this research demonstrates that the destabilisation of Mexican nationalism (and hence a 'post-national condition') reaches deeply inside the Mexican polity (see also Lawson, 2004).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…A third geometry affirms that political identity is multiscalar. As Lawson (2004) has demonstrated for migrants in Ecuador, for example, the scale of feelings of belonging can be distinct from the perceived scales of rights and responsibility. Anderson's (1996) term 'new medievalism' is particularly apt in capturing this kind of geometry.…”

Section: A Post-national Condition?mentioning

confidence: 92%

National Fragments and Post-national Cultures: Mexican National Identity in Transition?

Martín

2009

Space and Polity

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Over the past two decades, Mexican society, economics and culture have undergone a dramatic set of transformations. Accordingly, certain historical narratives that underpinned Mexican national identity formation throughout the 20th century have begun to unravel. As a result of this process, some scholars posit that a 'post-national' political culture is emerging in Mexico. This paper seeks to examine these trends through a critical examination of the narratives around national identity found in interviews conducted in Mexico in 2000. As a theoretical frame, this paper begins by examining the concept of post-nationalism. It then turns to an overview of 20th-century national formation in Mexico to provide a contextual basis for the interpreting the interview excerpts. The resulting analysis demonstrates the co-presence of national and post-national narratives in Mexico, both of which display hegemonic and subaltern dimensions. The particular discursive contours of these narratives have roots, this paper argues, in the contemporary intersection of state authoritarianism and neo-liberal globalisation.

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“…Geographers have used and investigated governmentality in a variety of settings (e.g. Brown and Knopp 2006;Ettlinger 2007;Hannah 2000;Lawson 2002;Rose-Redwood 2006), and they are contributing meaningfully to an interdisciplinary 'governmentality studies' literature (Dean 1999;Rose 1999). However, perhaps due to the nature of the institution itself and Foucault's earlier empirical focus on it, geographers have been hesitant to connect the spatial practice of imprisonment with governmentality.…”

Section: The Prison In Geographic Researchmentioning

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Geographies of Detention and Imprisonment: Interrogating Spatial Practices of Confinement, Discipline, Law, and State Power

2009

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This article surveys the state of emerging geographic research on detention, imprisonment, and confinement. Prisons and detention centers vary widely in location and form, but all hold human beings without consent by other human beings. We first survey geographical research on prisons and, second, on detention centers. We then argue that this geographic research offers three primary contributions to the study of imprisonment and detention. First, analyzing the spatial practices (the ordering of space and time) of these institutions provides a productive framework for understanding the materiality of social, cultural, and economic relationships. Second, this research provides an important perspective on state responses to the globalization of trade, migration, war, and security. Third, detention and imprisonment are productive sites for exclusionary discourses. In closing, we urge geographers to think deeply about how detention's indeterminacy works beyond the detention center, to be wary of implicit valorizations of imprisonment, and to take seriously the global expansion of the confinement industry.

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Global Governmentality and graduated sovereignty: National belonging among poor migrants in ecuador

Cited by 20 publications

References 20 publications

Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing Spaces of Inclusive Development

Reshaping Economic Geography? Producing Spaces of Inclusive Development

National Fragments and Post-national Cultures: Mexican National Identity in Transition?

Geographies of Detention and Imprisonment: Interrogating Spatial Practices of Confinement, Discipline, Law, and State Power

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