Raffaela Puggioni
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1683797 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Raffaela Puggioni |
| NOMBRES | Raffaela |
| APELLIDO | Puggioni |
| FIRMA | PUGGIONI R |
| AFILIACIONES | O. P. Jindal Global University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0668-6299 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
B/ordering humanitarian action
This article intervenes in current debates on the Mediterranean border regime and suggests rethinking the concept of the ‘humanitarian border’. Drawing on Border and Critical Security Studies, it argues that the current Italian government is not simply governing and disciplining mobility, but is bordering, ordering and othering humanitarian action, and especially search and rescue (SAR) operations. While existing scholarship highlights the coexis…
Disrupting (Italian) borderlines
Which Intelligible Words? Reading Femicide Through Rancière’s Concept of ‘La Mésentente’
While Jacques Rancière’s concept of the political, democracy, emancipation, equality and aesthetic have significantly (re)shaped many recent debates, his notion of dis-agreement—in its French formulation of ‘mésentente’, meaning the fact of not hearing, and/or of not understanding—has received relatively little attention. This article argues that if politics, as Rancière suggests, arise from a novel perceptual universe and if dis-agreement entail…
B/Ordering Emotions
By focussing on the emotional and affective dimensions of borders, this article suggests integrating the negative emotions that the European Union (EU) states’ border politics aim to instil—including fear, anxiety and trauma—with the positive emotions that the dream of a life in Europe encourages. Drawing upon the psychological and philosophical approaches to hope, this article highlights the centrality of hope in shaping agency, stimulating alte…
Reading the Covid-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault
Since the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, most analyses have used a Foucauldian perspective to investigate the disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms that (il/liberal) states introduced to contain the spread of the virus. Focussing on the Italian context, I suggest that, despite the mobility restrictions, the government retained overall its liberal rationality. Italian institutions did not aim to create a state of police nor to transform subje…
Coming Out as Undocumented
By focusing on the notion of ‘coming out as undocumented’, this concept paper critically explores whether identity politics has the potential to transform dominant ‘illegalisation’ processes. It argues that although the coming out strategy has helped make marginalised communities more visible and audible, it does not necessarily help disrupt dominant stigmas. Drawing upon insights from Disability Studies and Fat and Queer Politics, it suggests th…
Two Years of the Covid-19 Crisis
Doubtless, the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging in all aspects. However, rather than looking at COVID-19 exclusively as a catastrophic event, which has generated insecurity, anxiety, panic and helplessness, I suggest investigating this insecurity and anxiety through the prism of existential philosophy. Drawing, in particular, on the work of Søren Kierkegaard and the literature on the existentialist anxiety of international relatio…
Rethinking the ordinary and the extraordinary
Jacques Rancière's theorisation of the political has been particularly influential in investigating political struggles and social movements. By distinguishing between the police order - tasked with maintaining the dominant (hierarchical) system - and politics - aiming at breaking that system - Rancière suggests reading the political as a disruptive event. However, he does not specifically engage with the question of how politics affects and chan…
Emergency, Solidarity and Responsibility
Since the so-called 2015 Migration Crisis, great attention has been devoted to borders, activism and solidarity. While a part of the literature focuses on the political and/or humanitarian aspects of solidarity, this article suggests reading acts of solidarity through ethics. Looking at the Roya Valley, at the Italo–French border, I suggest that many local initiatives to assist and help migrants in transit were driven mostly by a sense of duty, r…
Governing Global Subjects? Border-crossers and the Limits of (Global) Governmentality
This article argues that ‘border-crossers' — those still in the process of crossing borders — might not be governable. It suggests to move away from the Foucauldian perspective and investigate border-crossers not through the prism of power relations but through their capacity to dream another future. It argues that we should integrate “how questions” — “how to govern oneself, how to be governed, how to govern others” — with ‘who questions' – that…
Choosing to be political
This article explores youth activism in the US, not through the lens of collective action, but as the product of personal choices. By drawing on existentialism, and particularly on the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, this article proposes to shift the focus of the debate from youths’ collective action to the self – a conscious self that observes, perceives and makes sense of the surrounding world through personal experience. It is this conscious self t…
Border politics, right to life and acts of dissensus
The debate on migration-related border controls has greatly expanded during the past decade. Special attention has been given to processes of contestation and of rights-claims enacted by migrants, drawing greatly on Isin’s work on acts of citizenship and Rancière’s articulation of the ‘uncounted’ and the political. Within this broad debate little attention has been devoted to the acts of common people in contesting current border management and e…
Against Camps' Violence
The present article looks at the politics of the camp and investigates the way in which detainees claim their right to a political and meaningful life against bare life. The question I look at is whether bare life might be resisted from within camps and how this resistance should be conceptualised. How are we to judge resistance? According to the modalities through which resistance is enacted? Or according to the subjects involved in those acts? …
Speaking through the body
This work reflects on the character of the modalities that non-status migrants are deploying in the context of current politics of the camp, with special attention to the Italian context. It will suggest that once the possibilities of dissent through the voice (the political tool par excellence in a liberal democracy, and one associated primarily with rationality and the capacity for reason) are foreclosed, migrants tend to resort to another powe…
Refugees, Institutional Invisibility, and Self-Help Strategies
The article investigates the way in which asylum reception has been organized in Italy in response to Kurdish refugees. The analysis suggests that Italy, as compared to northern European countries, has failed to develop a public system of reception, which has been counterbalanced by the parallel development of a private one. The abandonment of the vast majority of asylum seekers to their own survival strategies should read as an institutional fai…
Speaking through the body
This work reflects on the character of the modalities that non-status migrants are deploying in the context of current politics of the camp, with special attention to the Italian context. It will suggest that once the possibilities of dissent through the voice (the political tool par excellence in a liberal democracy, and one associated primarily with rationality and the capacity for reason) are foreclosed, migrants tend to resort to another powe…
Against Camps' Violence
The present article looks at the politics of the camp and investigates the way in which detainees claim their right to a political and meaningful life against bare life. The question I look at is whether bare life might be resisted from within camps and how this resistance should be conceptualised. How are we to judge resistance? According to the modalities through which resistance is enacted? Or according to the subjects involved in those acts? …
Border politics, right to life and acts of dissensus
The debate on migration-related border controls has greatly expanded during the past decade. Special attention has been given to processes of contestation and of rights-claims enacted by migrants, drawing greatly on Isin’s work on acts of citizenship and Rancière’s articulation of the ‘uncounted’ and the political. Within this broad debate little attention has been devoted to the acts of common people in contesting current border management and e…
Refugees, Institutional Invisibility, and Self-Help Strategies
The article investigates the way in which asylum reception has been organized in Italy in response to Kurdish refugees. The analysis suggests that Italy, as compared to northern European countries, has failed to develop a public system of reception, which has been counterbalanced by the parallel development of a private one. The abandonment of the vast majority of asylum seekers to their own survival strategies should read as an institutional fai…
Emergency, Solidarity and Responsibility
Since the so-called 2015 Migration Crisis, great attention has been devoted to borders, activism and solidarity. While a part of the literature focuses on the political and/or humanitarian aspects of solidarity, this article suggests reading acts of solidarity through ethics. Looking at the Roya Valley, at the Italo–French border, I suggest that many local initiatives to assist and help migrants in transit were driven mostly by a sense of duty, r…
Reading the Covid-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault
Since the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, most analyses have used a Foucauldian perspective to investigate the disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms that (il/liberal) states introduced to contain the spread of the virus. Focussing on the Italian context, I suggest that, despite the mobility restrictions, the government retained overall its liberal rationality. Italian institutions did not aim to create a state of police nor to transform subje…
Governing Global Subjects? Border-crossers and the Limits of (Global) Governmentality
This article argues that ‘border-crossers' — those still in the process of crossing borders — might not be governable. It suggests to move away from the Foucauldian perspective and investigate border-crossers not through the prism of power relations but through their capacity to dream another future. It argues that we should integrate “how questions” — “how to govern oneself, how to be governed, how to govern others” — with ‘who questions' – that…
Two Years of the Covid-19 Crisis
Doubtless, the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging in all aspects. However, rather than looking at COVID-19 exclusively as a catastrophic event, which has generated insecurity, anxiety, panic and helplessness, I suggest investigating this insecurity and anxiety through the prism of existential philosophy. Drawing, in particular, on the work of Søren Kierkegaard and the literature on the existentialist anxiety of international relatio…
Choosing to be political
This article explores youth activism in the US, not through the lens of collective action, but as the product of personal choices. By drawing on existentialism, and particularly on the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, this article proposes to shift the focus of the debate from youths’ collective action to the self – a conscious self that observes, perceives and makes sense of the surrounding world through personal experience. It is this conscious self t…
Refugees, Institutional Invisibility, and Self-Help Strategies
The article investigates the way in which asylum reception has been organized in Italy in response to Kurdish refugees. The analysis suggests that Italy, as compared to northern European countries, has failed to develop a public system of reception, which has been counterbalanced by the parallel development of a private one. The abandonment of the vast majority of asylum seekers to their own survival strategies should read as an institutional fai…
Against Camps' Violence
The present article looks at the politics of the camp and investigates the way in which detainees claim their right to a political and meaningful life against bare life. The question I look at is whether bare life might be resisted from within camps and how this resistance should be conceptualised. How are we to judge resistance? According to the modalities through which resistance is enacted? Or according to the subjects involved in those acts? …
Speaking through the body
This work reflects on the character of the modalities that non-status migrants are deploying in the context of current politics of the camp, with special attention to the Italian context. It will suggest that once the possibilities of dissent through the voice (the political tool par excellence in a liberal democracy, and one associated primarily with rationality and the capacity for reason) are foreclosed, migrants tend to resort to another powe…
Border politics, right to life and acts of dissensus
The debate on migration-related border controls has greatly expanded during the past decade. Special attention has been given to processes of contestation and of rights-claims enacted by migrants, drawing greatly on Isin’s work on acts of citizenship and Rancière’s articulation of the ‘uncounted’ and the political. Within this broad debate little attention has been devoted to the acts of common people in contesting current border management and e…
Choosing to be political
This article explores youth activism in the US, not through the lens of collective action, but as the product of personal choices. By drawing on existentialism, and particularly on the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, this article proposes to shift the focus of the debate from youths’ collective action to the self – a conscious self that observes, perceives and makes sense of the surrounding world through personal experience. It is this conscious self t…
Governing Global Subjects? Border-crossers and the Limits of (Global) Governmentality
This article argues that ‘border-crossers' — those still in the process of crossing borders — might not be governable. It suggests to move away from the Foucauldian perspective and investigate border-crossers not through the prism of power relations but through their capacity to dream another future. It argues that we should integrate “how questions” — “how to govern oneself, how to be governed, how to govern others” — with ‘who questions' – that…
Emergency, Solidarity and Responsibility
Since the so-called 2015 Migration Crisis, great attention has been devoted to borders, activism and solidarity. While a part of the literature focuses on the political and/or humanitarian aspects of solidarity, this article suggests reading acts of solidarity through ethics. Looking at the Roya Valley, at the Italo–French border, I suggest that many local initiatives to assist and help migrants in transit were driven mostly by a sense of duty, r…
Two Years of the Covid-19 Crisis
Doubtless, the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging in all aspects. However, rather than looking at COVID-19 exclusively as a catastrophic event, which has generated insecurity, anxiety, panic and helplessness, I suggest investigating this insecurity and anxiety through the prism of existential philosophy. Drawing, in particular, on the work of Søren Kierkegaard and the literature on the existentialist anxiety of international relatio…
Rethinking the ordinary and the extraordinary
Jacques Rancière's theorisation of the political has been particularly influential in investigating political struggles and social movements. By distinguishing between the police order - tasked with maintaining the dominant (hierarchical) system - and politics - aiming at breaking that system - Rancière suggests reading the political as a disruptive event. However, he does not specifically engage with the question of how politics affects and chan…
Coming Out as Undocumented
By focusing on the notion of ‘coming out as undocumented’, this concept paper critically explores whether identity politics has the potential to transform dominant ‘illegalisation’ processes. It argues that although the coming out strategy has helped make marginalised communities more visible and audible, it does not necessarily help disrupt dominant stigmas. Drawing upon insights from Disability Studies and Fat and Queer Politics, it suggests th…
Which Intelligible Words? Reading Femicide Through Rancière’s Concept of ‘La Mésentente’
While Jacques Rancière’s concept of the political, democracy, emancipation, equality and aesthetic have significantly (re)shaped many recent debates, his notion of dis-agreement—in its French formulation of ‘mésentente’, meaning the fact of not hearing, and/or of not understanding—has received relatively little attention. This article argues that if politics, as Rancière suggests, arise from a novel perceptual universe and if dis-agreement entail…
B/Ordering Emotions
By focussing on the emotional and affective dimensions of borders, this article suggests integrating the negative emotions that the European Union (EU) states’ border politics aim to instil—including fear, anxiety and trauma—with the positive emotions that the dream of a life in Europe encourages. Drawing upon the psychological and philosophical approaches to hope, this article highlights the centrality of hope in shaping agency, stimulating alte…
Reading the Covid-19 emergency with and beyond Foucault
Since the COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020, most analyses have used a Foucauldian perspective to investigate the disciplinary and surveillance mechanisms that (il/liberal) states introduced to contain the spread of the virus. Focussing on the Italian context, I suggest that, despite the mobility restrictions, the government retained overall its liberal rationality. Italian institutions did not aim to create a state of police nor to transform subje…
B/ordering humanitarian action
This article intervenes in current debates on the Mediterranean border regime and suggests rethinking the concept of the ‘humanitarian border’. Drawing on Border and Critical Security Studies, it argues that the current Italian government is not simply governing and disciplining mobility, but is bordering, ordering and othering humanitarian action, and especially search and rescue (SAR) operations. While existing scholarship highlights the coexis…
Disrupting (Italian) borderlines
Political science (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Critical Theory and Political Philosophy (4 obras) · Global Security and Public Health (4 obras) · Political economy (4 obras) · Citizenship (3 obras)