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On Borders, Policing, and Abolition Abolition Democracies Seminar - In Conversation with Dr. Vanessa Thompson (Queen's University) Join us for a conversation with Dr. Vanessa Thomspon on January 18, 5-8 p.m. Room A009 in OMHP | It is also possible to join the seminar via Zoom. Please send an email to s.elkhannoussielbouidrin@uva.nl for the link. 
Event details of Surplus People of the World Unite!
Date
18 January 2024
Time
17:00 -20:00
Location
Oudemanhuispoort
Room
A009

Movements against borders and policing have entered into a new phase in and beyond Europe in the last decades. Various self-organized refugee, migrant and anti-racist collectives, such as Women in Exile, the Black Vests or the newly founded network Abolish Frontex, have formed transnational coalitions and networks that engage in border and police abolition as well as abolitionist worldmaking. In this talk, I argue that these movements put surplus resistance as part of class struggle on the map: the resistance of precarious, wageless people and people rendered disposable and surplus, who are especially targeted by police and border violence as methods of racial capitalism. Engaging with the practices of some of these collectives, I argue that border and police abolition is crucial to the resistance against racial capital. These practices, as I demonstrate, also point to the international dimension of abolitionist resistance.

Oudemanhuispoort

Room A009
Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
1012 CN Amsterdam