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*The constitutive power of outsiders: Theorizing new spaces, scales, and
practices within and beyond Europe*


*Organizers*: William Kutz (University of Cambridge), Ilaria Giglioli (New
College of Florida)



We are looking for people interested in developing upon emerging research
on the study of what Brown and Christou (2011) called “the constitutive
power of outsiders.” This work has largely sought to explain the ways in
which peripheral and extra-European agents influence the structure of
European policy, identity, and borders (Delcour 2013). Doing so, the
approach has advocated for embracing EU territoriality as more unsettled
than has been generally accepted and to even imagine “what is left in the
margins, i.e. what is not Europeanized, and how this exterior relates to
the internal functioning of EU policies and institutions in even producing
some sort of counter-Europeanization” (Celata and Coletti, 2016, 19).
Research on the “power of outsiders” initially emerged from work undertaken
on the Eastern Dimension of the European Neighborhood, with a particular
focus on Ukraine, Russia and Turkey (Korosteleva, 2012; Bachmann and
Muller, 2016; Morozov and Rumelili, 2012). A growing number of studies from
the Mediterranean, including Tunisia (Cassarino, 2014) and Libya
(Bialasiewicz, 2012) have explored similar sets of ideas. The majority of
the debate, however, has approached the question from a decidedly
macro-regional perspective regarding the relationship between the European
Union and its margins.



Our proposed session aims to examine debate from a wider set of theoretical
and empirical perspectives, and to imagine what these approaches might do
for political geography more broadly. The themes include, but are not
limited to:



·      The scalar politics of outsiderness;

·      The cultures and economies of outsiderness;

·      Outsiderness and performativity;

·      Subalterity and outsiderness;

·      Gender, ethnicity and outsider power

·      Case studies of outsiderness beyond the European Union;



Please send abstracts to William Kutz ([log in to unmask]) and Ilaria Giglioli
([log in to unmask]) by *October 21, 2018*. Depending on interest, we may
also put together a panel on this topic. Feel free to also reach out if you
would be interested in participating in a different capacity.

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