11 Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity
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Phillip Cole
Abstract
This chapter examines the role of political theory in framing the forcibly displaced in a way that confines their political and theoretical agency. This confinement is caused by the way in which political theory is structured around the nation-state system of membership, such that the displaced have no context within which to exercise political agency, as they are, by definition, displaced outside of that system. It is also caused by the nature of political theory as a discourse of power, in which the displaced are constituted as objects of study, with no recognition that they can be agents of theory. This chapter applies postcolonial theory to arrive at a framework that focuses on the political agency of the forcibly displaced and their ability to contribute solutions to their own challenges, and which recognizes their capacity to be agents of theory, providing essential theoretical insights based upon their experiences.
Abstract
This chapter examines the role of political theory in framing the forcibly displaced in a way that confines their political and theoretical agency. This confinement is caused by the way in which political theory is structured around the nation-state system of membership, such that the displaced have no context within which to exercise political agency, as they are, by definition, displaced outside of that system. It is also caused by the nature of political theory as a discourse of power, in which the displaced are constituted as objects of study, with no recognition that they can be agents of theory. This chapter applies postcolonial theory to arrive at a framework that focuses on the political agency of the forcibly displaced and their ability to contribute solutions to their own challenges, and which recognizes their capacity to be agents of theory, providing essential theoretical insights based upon their experiences.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on Authors vii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Series Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
- Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of ‘Liberated Africans’ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808–60 28
- Colonization, Territorialization and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856–1918 46
- Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta and Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania 61
- Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa 76
- Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection 93
- Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission 109
- The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya 125
- Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of Otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands 144
- The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India 161
- Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity 176
- Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia 192
- The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement 209
- Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration 223
- Index 237
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on Authors vii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Series Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
- Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of ‘Liberated Africans’ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808–60 28
- Colonization, Territorialization and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856–1918 46
- Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta and Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania 61
- Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa 76
- Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection 93
- Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission 109
- The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya 125
- Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of Otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands 144
- The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India 161
- Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity 176
- Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia 192
- The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement 209
- Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration 223
- Index 237
