Hello,
I am emailing to circulate an invitation to the following keynote, which
we hope may be of interest! I am also including, below, a link to a page
with our full calendar of events for the term. Apologies for any cross
posting!
Best wishes,
Tom
Manus Prison Theory: Displacement, Exile and Knowing in Indefinite
Detention
Behrouz Boochani (Journalist, writer and film producer) and Omid
Tofighian (UNSW)
Friday 7th February, 10:00 - 12:00
Cripps Court Auditorium, Magdalene College, 1-2 Chesterton Rd, CB3 OAG
This talk addresses the 2018 publication of No Friend but the Mountains:
Writings From Manus Prison by the Kurdish Iranian writer and journalist
Behrouz Boochani. The author was held in indefinite detention on Manus
Island in Papua New Guinea from 2013 to 2019 as part of the Australian
government's policies on refugees, writing about conditions in the
detention centre in secret. Boochani's work presents an extraordinary
aesthetic, philosophical and political challenge to think through and
interrogate the mechanics of detention within a framework of colonial
dispossession and the neo-colonial strategies that maintain and
reinforce border violence.
This paper discusses the experiences and knowledge produced under
conditions of displacement and exile, and how such narratives, rarely
prioritised in public or academic discourse, offer a unique insight into
the lived-experience and endurance of people subject to racialised
government policies, intersectional discrimination and systemic
exclusion.
No Friend but the Mountains’ translator, Dr Omid Tofighian (University
of Sydney), will address us in person, while Behrouz Boochani will join
us via videolink.
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28827
--
PhD candidate in Social Anthropology,
University of Cambridge
Convenor, Risk and Renewal in the Pacific Research Network,
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/risk-and-renewal-in-the-pacific
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