Crossing Violent Borders
Border violence is not passé but remains as relevant as ever. How can one explain the currently high degree of border violence all over the world, along with the mushrooming of democratic and human rights institutions?
Since the fall of New York’s Twin Towers in 2001 new security regimes have introduced restrictions on human mobility. Armed interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Mediterranean transforming into a burial ground for boat people, and bodies hanging limply from border fences in Mexico, Bangladesh or Korea no longer appear as aberrations of democratic functioning. Border violence is not passé but remains as relevant as ever, especially for the un-authorized traveler, the refugee, the poor, and the stateless person. How can one explain the currently high degree of border violence all over the world, along with the mushrooming of democratic and human rights institutions?
Speakers
Robert Bosch (The Netherlands Ambassador to Kosovo)
Geert van Kesteren (Photo-journalist in war zones)
Peer Schouten (University of Gothenburg)
Willem van Schendel (International Institute of Social History)
Malini Sur (University of Amsterdam)
Photo-Exhibition
Life in South Asia’s Borderlands
Willem van Schendel and Malini Sur
1 to 10 October, 2011 at the Grand Café, De Balie (Entrance Free)