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Dear All Please join us for out next Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies (REPS) Seminar B/ORDERS: FENCE NATIONALISM, RACIAL TECHNOLOGY AND EVERYDAY LIFE Friday 17th March 2017, 16:00-18:00. Bramber House BH-255, University of Sussex, Falmer. BN1 9RH. There are more than 50 new national border walls and fences proposed, under construction, or finished since 2001. The resurgent popularity of walls and fences is an important characteristic of neoliberal ascendency—a form of both internal and external “security” measures to protect speculative interests in the planetary search for new commodities, markets, and services. This nomos marks out contemporary contours of racial capitalism—the spatial, violent, and visual manifestations of economic and political rule. Racism is at the foundation of this arrangement; it is not merely an artifact of otherness produced or represented by these edifices. Borders are not only maintained at the frontier of the state. Their racial technologies, found in class room registers, biometric data, NHS assessments and in the gaze of strangers violently permeates everyday life. If a defining feature of the contemporary moment is the proliferation of border walls, another is the deep reach of border technologies, and bordering, into previously unregimented social and psychic spaces. In the context of ongoing war and the crumbling European project, the need to define racial and nationalist belonging has sharpened and with it the compulsion to monitor, administer and exclude racial others. The speakers will be Dr Olivia Mena (University of Texas) and Dr Georgie Wemyss (University of East London). Please sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/borders-fence-nationalism-racial-technology-and-everyday-life-tickets-32514157721?ref=estw Best wishes Malcolm James and Helen Kim Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies and UEL Sociology _______________________________________________________ [log in to unmask] An urban geography discussion and announcement forum List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/URB-GEOG-FORUM Maintained by: RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group UGRG Home Page: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk