1st Edition
Making Refugees’ Political Agency Visible Practices of the Subject
Introduction: The Subjects of Forced Migration
1) Practices of Making Subjects in International Relations
2) The Visual Construction of Governable Refugees
3) Not So Bare Life 4) Humorous Criminals
5) Productive Adults or Perpetual Children?
6) Conclusion: Depoliticization and its Disruption
Biography
Dr Amelie Harbisch is a PostDoc at the University of Erfurt. As part of the BMBF-funded project "KNOWPRO", she is researching knowledge production in German peace and security policy. She focuses on ethnographic work, migration, and international political sociology (practice theory, performance/performativity, discourse).
"Amelie Harbisch enables us to “see” refugee politics in a new way. She reveals how refugees, despite their precarity, are political agents capable of making claims, asserting their subjectivity, and marking their presence within the polity. This book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding how political subjectivity is being enacted and remade by people displaced from the institution of citizenship."
Peter Nyers, Department of Political Science, McMaster University
