*Royal Geographical Society*

*Annual International Conference 2016*



*30 August - 2 September, 2016 | London, UK *







Open panel/Call for papers



*Deadline **12 February 2016*



*Beyond Borders and Nations: Transnational Geographies from Syria to Europe
*



Ms. Vasiliki Makrygianni

PhD Researcher, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece

e-mail: [log in to unmask]



Mr. Charalampos Tsavdaroglou

PhD Researcher, School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece

e-mail: [log in to unmask]



The ongoing refugee streams that derive from the recent conflict in the
Middle East are a central issue to the growing sociopolitical debate about
the different facets of contemporary crises. The human flows that cross
boundaries and territories heading to the European North, destabilize both
territorial certainties and established politics in the European region.

The moving populations challenge the role of the nation-state and its
borderlines and bring into question the notion of free movement within the
European Union. While borders constitute porous passages for capital goods,
labor market and its components, at the same time they function as
racialised spaces of exclusion for certain populations. This intensifying
securitization of border controls, restrictive asylum and migration
politics produce death-scapes that extend from Europe to the Middle
East. Nevertheless,
these human flows contest border regimes and exclusionary policies through
numerous struggles and negations in a local and interlocal level. These
streams create a nexus of emerging spaces of resistance and emancipation
while marking new routes in the world map. Thus, a wide net of channels of
communication and encounter evolves while the interaction with local
communities gives birth to newly formed transnational spaces.

In this sense, a spatial nexus of exclusionary and emancipatory praxes is
spread creating transnational spaces of negations, commoning and
coexistence that extend from the recently bombed Syria to northern European
host countries.

In this context this session aims to pinpoint the various processes of
subjectification of these human streams and to challenge issues of
citizenship. Moreover the destabilization of the fixed categories of
migrants and refugees contributes to a better understanding of the moving
populations and their spaces of reference.

This session welcomes proposals from various disciplines that discuss
emerging transnational geographies from Syria to Europe. Thus, the panel
encourages proposals that:

-        follow dialectic, decolonial and intersectional approaches in
order to offer a better view on gender, class, ethnic or sexual relations
and understand migrants and refugees not only as victims but also as agents
of resistance and emancipation.

-        focus on praxes of commoning, resistance and emancipation against
this crisis.

-        analyze contemporary state politics concerning the recent
refugee/migratory flows.

-        pay attention in both wider geopolitical transformations and small
scale space alterations and shed light to the emerging nexus of
transnational spaces (cities, neighborhoods, landscapes, camps, borderlines
etc.) that extents from Syria to Northern Europe.







Please submit your abstract of 250 words by 12th February 2016, to Vasiliki
Makrygianni ([log in to unmask]) and Charalampos Tsavdaroglou (
[log in to unmask]).

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