Claudia Aradau and Lucrezia Canzutti will introduce the Special Issue they have co-edited on Border Agnologies, which is forthcoming in the journal Geopolitics at the Borders and International Mobility seminar series at Université Libre de Bruxelles. Thank you
to Julien Jeandesboz and Julia Van Dessel for the invitation.
The talk will outline the contributions that the special issue makes to the vibrant interdisciplinary conversation between critical scholarship on borders, migration and security, and the field of ignorance studies. By focusing on ‘border agnotologies’, we have invited authors to explore the specificities of bordering practices in the production and reproduction of knowing and not-knowledge. Through the plural ‘agnotologies’, we propose to pluralise the vocabularies of ignorance and non-knowledge by unpacking the practices that produce not-knowing. The SI attends to the heterogeneous forms that not-knowing takes in bordering practices, unpacks processes of knowledge and non-knowledge production, and traces how non-knowledge is entangled with power relations and how it enacts subjectivities. As bordering practices multiply forms of exclusion at the same time as producing ‘differential inclusion’, we need to understand how these multiplications and hierarchies are sustained through non-knowledge and not just knowledge, and how analyses of non-knowledge can reconfigure modes of critique, enable political interventions and forms of resistance. To address these dimensions of analysis, we will draw on our work as well as the contributions to the SI.
Details about the seminar and registration link at https://repi.phisoc.ulb.be/en/border-agnotologies-power-technology-resistance.
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