BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2500@europa.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240419T144003 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240506T103000 SUMMARY:Talk with Prof. Jutta Bakonyi (Durham University): "Capitalism\, In frastructural Power and Modular Statecraft" DESCRIPTION:Infrastructures matter. They mediate human experiences and faci litate how we engage with and think about the world. The contemporary infr astructural boom across the global South dragged infrastructures into the limelight of academic studies. An increasing number of scholars across dis ciplines are raising questions about the role of materials in the making o f our world. My paper will follow this question and show how the peculiar ontology of infrastructures as ‘matter that enables the movement of othe r matter’ (Larkin) brings to the fore dialectic tensions of materials an d movements that are challenging conventional understandings of space\, sc ale\, and agency. On the one hand\, infrastructures are undergirding capit al’s insatiable drive towards spatial expansion and ever-faster circulat ion. Infrastructures are deeply imbricated in the capitalist promise of pr ogress and its vision of frictionless mobility and ever-expanding consumpt ion. On the other hand\, infrastructures significantly interrupt mobilitie s and are co-constituting the political as bounded and static driving feel ings of nationalism and patriotism. The paper uses infrastructures to trac e the dialectic tension between capital’s drive towards the transgressio n of mobility barriers and the political attempt to erect and solidify bou ndaries. I will also attend to spatial technologies used to mitigate these tensions and outline how the infrastructural boom is currently re-configu ring state-society relations contributing to the modularization of stateho od. \\r\\nJutta Bakonyi [https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jutta-bakonyi/] i s Professor of Development and Conflict at Durham University in the UK.  Her main research interests are the causes\, actors and dynamics of viol ence\, orders of violence beyond the state\, state dynamics and internatio nal interventions. She is also exploring the material and emotive side of violence\, for example researching the nexus of displacement and urbanisa tion [https://securityonthemove.co.uk/] and attending to the politics of infrastructures [https://more.bham.ac.uk/port-infrastructure/]\, focussin g especially on ports and transport corridors. Her regional focus is on th e Horn of Africa. X-ALT-DESC:

Infrastructures matter. They mediate human experiences and fa cilitate how we engage with and think about the world. The contemporary in frastructural boom across the global South dragged infrastructures into th e limelight of academic studies. An increasing number of scholars across d isciplines are raising questions about the role of materials in the making of our world. My paper will follow this question and show how the peculia r ontology of infrastructures as ‘matter that enables the movement of ot her matter’ (Larkin) brings to the fore dialectic tensions of materials and movements that are challenging conventional understandings of space\, scale\, and agency. On the one hand\, infrastructures are undergirding cap ital’s insatiable drive towards spatial expansion and ever-faster circul ation. Infrastructures are deeply imbricated in the capitalist promise of progress and its vision of frictionless mobility and ever-expanding consum ption. On the other hand\, infrastructures significantly interrupt mobilit ies and are co-constituting the political as bounded and static driving fe elings of nationalism and patriotism. The paper uses infrastructures to tr ace the dialectic tension between capital’s drive towards the transgress ion of mobility barriers and the political attempt to erect and solidify b oundaries. I will also attend to spatial technologies used to mitigate the se tensions and outline how the infrastructural boom is currently re-confi guring state-society relations contributing to the modularization of state hood. \;

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Jutta Bakonyi is \;Professor of Development and Conflict \; at Durham University in the UK. \;Her main research interests are the causes\, actors and dynamics of violence\, orders of violence beyond the s tate\, state dynamics and international interventions. She is also explori ng the material and emotive side of violence\, for example researching the  \;nexus of displacement an d urbanisation \;and attending to the \;politics of infrastructures\, focussi ng especially on ports and transport corridors. Her regional focus is on t he Horn of Africa.

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