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Colloquium 4

Mobility and Borders

23-24 April 2009
University of Bologna

Co-organised by: University of Bologna and University of Napoli "L'Orientale"


A report by the ATACD Chair can be downloaded here.

Colloquium papers:

Programme and Abstracts  

Ian Chambers - "Borders and the Violence of Translation"

Josep Perello - "Constraints and extremes, limits and boundaries: A mathematical perspective on social systems"

Sandro Mezzadra - "Borderscapes of Differential Inclusion"

 

Further reading:

Luhmann, N., 1982, "Territorial Borders as System Boundaries", in: R. Strassoldo, G. Delli Zotti, a cura, Cooperation and Conflict in Border Areas, Milano: Franco Angeli, pp. 235-244


Mezzadra, S., Neilson, B., “Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor” in: Transversal, 06-08 (_http://eipcp.net/transversal/0608/mezzadraneilson/en_)


Cache, B., “Bodies and Souls” in: Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, Cambridge,  MIT Press, 1995, pp.118-130.


Grosz, E., "Architectures of Excess" in: Architectures from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Space, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2001, pp. 150-164.


Chambers, I., 'Borders and the Boundaries of Democracy” in: New Formations, n. 58, Summer 2006, pp. 47-52.


Mandelbrot, B.B., How long is the coast of Britain? Statistical self-similarity and fractional dimension, Science: 156, 1967, pp 636-638.


Book Review: A Guide to First-Passage Processes. Sidney Redner. Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2001.


Weizmann, E., "The Wall: Barrier Archipelagos and The Impossible Politics of Separation" in: Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation, London: Verso, 2007, pp. 161-182.


Guest Editorial from Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2005, volume 23, pages 637-642.

 

 

 

 
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