Volkskundemuseum Wien
Otto Wagner Areal, Pavillon 1
Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
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Dienstags, 17 Uhr
Input: The US government has launched a mass hunt for eleven million illegalized workers. We increasingly see images of migrants being snatched by ICE on the streets, kidnapped in cars, and often deported without further notice. The EU is funding terror squads in Libya to keep refugees away from its external borders. In Gaza, more than two million people are being starved and displaced after AI-controlled genocidal killings to create a “Riviera of the Middle East” and extend the vision of an ethno-nationalist state project. In Germany, though the Administrative Court has recently rejected border controls within the Schengen zone, the German government will continue its policy of increased controls and rejection at German borders despite the setback in court.
Vanessa E. Thompson is Assistant Professor and Distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice at Queen’s University, Canada. Her research focuses on state violence, carcerality and racism as well as on abolition and internationalism. She organizes with transnational abolitionist feminist collectives in and beyond Europe.
Ort:
In this talk, I suggest that we think about this current conjuncture of fascistization via processes of surplusification. I will draw on black radical analysis of fascism to support this argument as these approaches provide crucial insights to understand the inherent relation between liberalism and fascism. This further allows grasping the development of state fascism instead of just focusing on the far-right or right-wing movements. Further, sites of struggle come into view that are often not considered inherently anti-fascist. Finally, I discuss abolitionist politics as a crucial part of anti-fascism.
Vanessa E. Thompson is Assistant Professor and Distinguished Professor in Black Studies and Social Justice at Queen’s University, Canada. Her research focuses on state violence, carcerality and racism as well as on abolition and internationalism. She organizes with transnational abolitionist feminist collectives in and beyond Europe.
Ort:
Livestream online: euroethnologie.univie.ac.at
Die Gesprächsreihe Leben in autoritären Zeiten: Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen und kulturelle Interventionen ist eine Kooperation mit dem Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Universität Wien und findet im Rahmen des Programms Through the Dark statt.
