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Tidligere gæsteforskere ved AMID
Spring 2002 Visiting Fellows
Visiting fellow: PhD Candidate
Svetlana Taraban
Duration of fellowship: 2 months, April-June 2002
Curriculum
Vitae:
Svetlana Taraban is a Ph. D. student at the Faculty
of Education, York University, Toronto and a Graduate Diploma student
at the Canadian Center for German and European Studies. Her research
interests explore the issues of identity, gender and globalization
and the status of women in post-socialists societies. Current projects:
Unaccompanied Children Arriving in Canada (sponsored by Citizenship
and Immigration Canada).
Fellow's supervisor during fellowship: Associate Professor Birte
Siim, FREIA, Institute for History, International and Social Studies,
Aalborg University.
Research project presented on May 16:
Queens and Pawns: Writing/Reading Globalization through
the Narratives of Female Border-Crossers
Abstract:
Drawing on the published (auto)biogrpahies, narratives,
and ethnographies of female border-crossers in different parts of
the world, I will map some of the effects of globalization on the
performance of gender in transnational spaces, on the refashioning
of identities of female border-crossers and finally, on the re-signification
of gender in the dialectics of the local and the global. This paper
is organized around four interrelated questions: How do the events
and processes of globalization and transnationalism affect the experiences
and lives of female border-crossers both globally and locally? How
is gender being performed at the borders of the nation-states as
well as within the spatial configurations of the modern nation-states?
What new types of female border-crossers are emerging in the contemporary
transnational landscape? And, What are the material and normative
constraints that impinge upon the practices of constituting cosmopolitan,
nomadic, and deterritorialized identities of female border-crossers?
Discussant: Associate Professor Birte Siim, FREIA, Institute
for History, International and Social Studies, Aalborg University
Autumn 2002 Visiting Fellows
Visiting fellow: Zhidas Daskalovski
Duration of fellowship:
3 months, September-November 2002
Curriculum Vitae:
Zhidas Daskalovski is a doctoral candidate at the Political
Science Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary,
currently a visiting fellow at Academy for Migration Issues in Denmark,
Aalborg University. He has been Macedonian Studies Teacher/Fellow
at School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College
London, as well as a Lord Dahrendorf Fellow at St.Antony's College,
Oxford University. He is co-editor of the journal Southast European
Politics and has published numerous articles on the Southeast European
Region including: "Scheppele and Waldron's Contractarianism
and the Right to 'Secession': The Case of Macedonia" in Slovo
Vol.13. March 2001 and "A Study of the Legal Framework of the
Macedonian Broadcasting Media (1991-1998): From Deregulation to
a European Paradigm" in Balkanistica Vol.14, 2001.
Fellow's supervisor during fellowship: Professor, Dr. Ulf Hedetoft,
AMID, Aalborg University
Research project presented on November
7:
The Liberal State and the Scope of Minority Rights: Costs
and Benefits?
Abstract:
Provided that there is a case for public support of national
minorities this presentation analyzes what should the scope of the
implementation of policies aimed at improving the conditions of
the ethnocultural groups be. To find a more precise answer to this
question I turn to Ronald Dworkin's discussion concerning the predicament
of state support for art and culture. Building my argument on the
premise that Dworkin's account is inadequate I will propose an alternative
approach to the issue of when and how much can the state support
art and culture. I will argue that Dworkin's position violates state
neutrality and is not satisfactory from a liberal point of view.
In turn, my approach will be grounded on the respect for the principle
of liberal neutrality between the conceptions of the good of various
citizens and will be useful not only in manners concerning support
of arts and culture in general, but also regarding the scope of
the state's support for minority cultures.
Key Words: liberal neutrality, minority cultures, public
support of minorities.
Discussant: Assistant Professor, Dr. Lisanne Wilken, AMID,
Aalborg University.
Visiting fellow: Carsten
Bagge Laustsen
Duration of fellowship:
December 9-11, 2002
Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus
University
Research presentation on December 9
"Camping" - From refugee camps to gated communities
(Paper by Bülent Diken & Carsten Bagge Laustsen)
Abstract:
To be sure, the techniques of total exclusion from human
togetherness were first developed in the colonies. However, once
invented and perfected, they did not cease to come back to Europe;
indeed, what the European Christian bourgeois could not truly forgive
and forget regarding Hitler was not the crime of genocide, but the
bringing of the homo sacer to Europe. Today the homo sacer is in
the West and is so in many, old and new, ways, in expected and unexpected
situations. This paper deals with the situation of the asylum seeker,
who, being "human as such", is more than anything else
an instantiation of the homo sacer. The confrontation with the refugee
remains in our own time an acid test for politics, a confrontation
that incessantly brings into play the scandal of the human as such.
The contemporary system into which refugees are enrolled is designed
to keep refugees off limits through ever-restrictive policies. Thus
many are literally immobilized in "non-places", e.g. accommodation
centers in which they lead a life of "frozen transience"
and detention centers into which they are forced without trial.
The paper focuses on the socio-spatial nature of this extreme form
of immobilization, relating it to the concept of the camp. We then
move on to discuss some remarkable convergences between refugee
spaces and other more respected and more desired contemporary "camps"
that effectively problematize the notions of the city and politics.
Discussant: Professor, Dr. Ulf Hedetoft, AMID, Aalborg University
Research presentation on December 11
Becoming Abject - Rape as a Weapon of War
Abstract:
Organized rape has been an integral aspect of warfare for
centuries. However, the classics on warfare have predominantly been
concerned with theorizing "regular" warfare - that is,
situations where one army is encountering another in a battle for
the conquest or defence of a territory. Recently, however, much
attention has been paid to asymmetric warfare and accordingly to
phenomena such as guerrilla tactics, terrorism, hostage taking,
and a whole range of aspects of war revolving around the importance
of identity: be it religious fundamentalism and holy war, ethnic
cleansing, or war rape. War rape might in fact be taken as the best
example of an asymmetric strategy. In war rape, the enemy soldier
attacks a civilian (not a fellow combatant), a woman (not another
male soldier) and only indirectly with the aim of holding or taking
a territory. The prime aim of war rape is to inflict traumas and
through these to destroy family ties and group solidarity within
the enemy camp. The paper understands war rape as a fundamental
way of abandoning subjects: Rape stamps the mark of sovereignty
directly on the body - it is in essence a bio-political strategy
using (or better abusing) the distinction between the self and the
body. Through an indepth analysis of the way rape was practiced
by predominantly paramilitary Serbian forces on Bosnian soil, the
paper seeks to understand and theorize a twofold practice of abjection:
Through war rape an abject is introduced within the woman body (sperm
or forced pregnancy) transforming her into an abject self rejected
by the family, excluded by the community and quite often also the
object of selfhate of in some cases suicidal dimensions. The paper
seeks to develop its understanding of war rape through a synthesis
of the literature on abandonment (Schmitt, Arendt, Agamben) and
abjection (Bataille, Douglas, Kristeva) and accordingly it is argued
that the penetration of the woman body works as a metaphor for the
penetration of enemy lines, and in addition that this "bio-political"
strategy operates through the creation of an "inclusive exclusion"
- as does all other form of sovereignty. The woman and the community
in question are inscribed within the enemy realm of power as excluded.
Discussant: Associate Professor Birte Siim, FREIA, Institute
for History, International and Social Studies, Aalborg University.
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