Estela Schindel
Biographic Data
| ID | 915185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Estela Schindel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Estela |
| FAMILY NAME | Schindel |
| SIGNATURE | SCHINDEL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Viadrina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3226-2406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Anthropocene as Epistemic Crisis: The EU Green Deal From the Perspective of Latin American Decolonial Critique
Europe and the migrant’s gaze: Three approaches to migration in research and film
This article explores questions of positionality in relation to the gaze towards migrants; it is centred on an analysis of three films produced in Europe in the wake of public discussions on migration. It argues that each of these films shows an affinity with one of three possible theoretical approaches in migration research: Fuocoammare is interpreted as corresponding to the mainstream scientific gaze and the humanitarian gesture; Les Sauteurs i…
Das biopolitische Schisma: Materielle und symbolische Abgrenzungen entlang der EU-Grenzen
Deaths and Disappearances in Migration to Europe: Exploring the Uses of a Transnationalized Category
The high number of persons lost, missing, or dead without confirmation of decease in the Euro-Mediterranean in the context of migration and seek of asylum pose a challenge to the technical and conceptual tools available in order to account for their lives. This article explores the reach and possible uses of the category of enforced disappearance. The genealogy of enforced disappearance in Latin America in the 1970s is presented and discussed in …
Desiertos, mares, islas: Geografías de intemperie como espacios de desaparición en contextos migratorios
La desaparición se entiende aquí como la producción de modos de existencia por fuera de los marcos de inscripción sociales y civiles. Se trata de un desacople entre la vida cualificada y la esfera de la mera supervivencia: una vida expuesta, vulnerable, nuda. Esta definición revela una correspondencia íntima con la frontera, instancia en la que la protección de un estado es puesta en suspenso en forma más o menos temporal. La ampliación del espac…
Disappearance: Life in the LimitS
Life and death have been in the center of research on disappearance; disappearance is actually an unknown on those states: are they alive? Are they dead? Those unknowns are interwoven in a process where life and death constitute no longer a dichotomy and we find today a bigger zone of indetermination between them. In this text we reflect about the definition of life and death and about the production of that zone of indetermination that is today …
Death by ‘nature’: The European border regime and the spatial production of slow violence
The logic and temporality of the ‘border spectacle’ have dominated public reception of the violence endured by migrants and refugees on their journey to Europe, thus occluding the manifold ways in which daily, silent, slow violence unfolds through the EU border regime. The claim of this essay is that border assemblages are involved in the deployment of spatialized slow violence, especially through what I define as the political production of expo…
Biometrics, body normalization, and EU border control
The European Union is increasingly using and experimenting biometric technologies for border control. The combination of data proceeding from diverse bodily sources, like iris, fingerprints, and face recognition among others, as well as the potential integration of behavioral markers raise a series of questions concerning individual data protection and privacy rights. Beyond those issues, however, biometrics poses challenges regarding the very de…
Migrantes y refugiados en las fronteras de Europa. Cualificación por el sufrimiento, nuda vida y agencias paradójicas
Tema: Los ciudadanos-víctima. Problematización teórica y revisión crítica de una identidad transnacionalizada. Sección: Dossier
Bare life at the European borders. Entanglements of technology, society and nature
The sophisticated technology deployed for border control and surveillance at the EU borders poses a sharp contrast to the main causes for the deaths occurring in border areas, mainly due to abandonment to the elements. However, it is precisely the technology deployed at the borders which paradoxically pushes illegalized travelers to zones of greater exposure to "nature." The article explores from a cultural-sociological perspective the new config…
Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception
Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsore
Grasping the Global and the Local in Memorialisation Practices. Some Dialogues and Tensions between Latin America and Europe
Theses about globalised, cosmopolitan, transnational or multilateral memories have received wide circulation over the past few decades. However, their reception in – and pertinence to – Latin America has up to now received little attention within the international debate. This article aims to contribute to this debate by focusing on the particular field of memorialisation discourses and practices. The text posits the existence of a certain global…
Ghosts and compañeros: Haunting stories and the quest for justice around Argentina's former terror sites
The policies adopted by the Argentine government since 2003 in favour of truth, memory and justice have resulted in the opening up of former clandestine detention centres (CDCs) to the public, and their transformation into sites of memory. The practices and discourses developed at such locations, however, produce their own silences and shadows. In this article, I explore narratives about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena that are attached t…
Now the Neighbors Lose Their Fear: Restoring the Social Network around Former Sites of Terror in Argentina
State terror in Argentina in the late 1970s was aimed at dismantling social relationships of mutual commitment and solidarity and imposing in their stead practices of fear, isolation and mistrust. A permeating network of clandestine detention centers and illegal burial sites played a key role in spreading localized state terror to the whole of society. After describing the broader context of the dictatorship’s urban space restructuring policy, th…
Death by ‘nature’: The European border regime and the spatial production of slow violence
The logic and temporality of the ‘border spectacle’ have dominated public reception of the violence endured by migrants and refugees on their journey to Europe, thus occluding the manifold ways in which daily, silent, slow violence unfolds through the EU border regime. The claim of this essay is that border assemblages are involved in the deployment of spatialized slow violence, especially through what I define as the political production of expo…
Bare life at the European borders. Entanglements of technology, society and nature
The sophisticated technology deployed for border control and surveillance at the EU borders poses a sharp contrast to the main causes for the deaths occurring in border areas, mainly due to abandonment to the elements. However, it is precisely the technology deployed at the borders which paradoxically pushes illegalized travelers to zones of greater exposure to "nature." The article explores from a cultural-sociological perspective the new config…
Migrantes y refugiados en las fronteras de Europa. Cualificación por el sufrimiento, nuda vida y agencias paradójicas
Tema: Los ciudadanos-víctima. Problematización teórica y revisión crítica de una identidad transnacionalizada. Sección: Dossier
Deaths and Disappearances in Migration to Europe: Exploring the Uses of a Transnationalized Category
The high number of persons lost, missing, or dead without confirmation of decease in the Euro-Mediterranean in the context of migration and seek of asylum pose a challenge to the technical and conceptual tools available in order to account for their lives. This article explores the reach and possible uses of the category of enforced disappearance. The genealogy of enforced disappearance in Latin America in the 1970s is presented and discussed in …
Desiertos, mares, islas: Geografías de intemperie como espacios de desaparición en contextos migratorios
La desaparición se entiende aquí como la producción de modos de existencia por fuera de los marcos de inscripción sociales y civiles. Se trata de un desacople entre la vida cualificada y la esfera de la mera supervivencia: una vida expuesta, vulnerable, nuda. Esta definición revela una correspondencia íntima con la frontera, instancia en la que la protección de un estado es puesta en suspenso en forma más o menos temporal. La ampliación del espac…
Ghosts and compañeros: Haunting stories and the quest for justice around Argentina's former terror sites
The policies adopted by the Argentine government since 2003 in favour of truth, memory and justice have resulted in the opening up of former clandestine detention centres (CDCs) to the public, and their transformation into sites of memory. The practices and discourses developed at such locations, however, produce their own silences and shadows. In this article, I explore narratives about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena that are attached t…
Now the Neighbors Lose Their Fear: Restoring the Social Network around Former Sites of Terror in Argentina
State terror in Argentina in the late 1970s was aimed at dismantling social relationships of mutual commitment and solidarity and imposing in their stead practices of fear, isolation and mistrust. A permeating network of clandestine detention centers and illegal burial sites played a key role in spreading localized state terror to the whole of society. After describing the broader context of the dictatorship’s urban space restructuring policy, th…
Now the Neighbors Lose Their Fear: Restoring the Social Network around Former Sites of Terror in Argentina
State terror in Argentina in the late 1970s was aimed at dismantling social relationships of mutual commitment and solidarity and imposing in their stead practices of fear, isolation and mistrust. A permeating network of clandestine detention centers and illegal burial sites played a key role in spreading localized state terror to the whole of society. After describing the broader context of the dictatorship’s urban space restructuring policy, th…
Ghosts and compañeros: Haunting stories and the quest for justice around Argentina's former terror sites
The policies adopted by the Argentine government since 2003 in favour of truth, memory and justice have resulted in the opening up of former clandestine detention centres (CDCs) to the public, and their transformation into sites of memory. The practices and discourses developed at such locations, however, produce their own silences and shadows. In this article, I explore narratives about ghosts and other supernatural phenomena that are attached t…
Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception
Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsore
Grasping the Global and the Local in Memorialisation Practices. Some Dialogues and Tensions between Latin America and Europe
Theses about globalised, cosmopolitan, transnational or multilateral memories have received wide circulation over the past few decades. However, their reception in – and pertinence to – Latin America has up to now received little attention within the international debate. This article aims to contribute to this debate by focusing on the particular field of memorialisation discourses and practices. The text posits the existence of a certain global…
Bare life at the European borders. Entanglements of technology, society and nature
The sophisticated technology deployed for border control and surveillance at the EU borders poses a sharp contrast to the main causes for the deaths occurring in border areas, mainly due to abandonment to the elements. However, it is precisely the technology deployed at the borders which paradoxically pushes illegalized travelers to zones of greater exposure to "nature." The article explores from a cultural-sociological perspective the new config…
Migrantes y refugiados en las fronteras de Europa. Cualificación por el sufrimiento, nuda vida y agencias paradójicas
Tema: Los ciudadanos-víctima. Problematización teórica y revisión crítica de una identidad transnacionalizada. Sección: Dossier
Biometrics, body normalization, and EU border control
The European Union is increasingly using and experimenting biometric technologies for border control. The combination of data proceeding from diverse bodily sources, like iris, fingerprints, and face recognition among others, as well as the potential integration of behavioral markers raise a series of questions concerning individual data protection and privacy rights. Beyond those issues, however, biometrics poses challenges regarding the very de…
Disappearance: Life in the LimitS
Life and death have been in the center of research on disappearance; disappearance is actually an unknown on those states: are they alive? Are they dead? Those unknowns are interwoven in a process where life and death constitute no longer a dichotomy and we find today a bigger zone of indetermination between them. In this text we reflect about the definition of life and death and about the production of that zone of indetermination that is today …
Death by ‘nature’: The European border regime and the spatial production of slow violence
The logic and temporality of the ‘border spectacle’ have dominated public reception of the violence endured by migrants and refugees on their journey to Europe, thus occluding the manifold ways in which daily, silent, slow violence unfolds through the EU border regime. The claim of this essay is that border assemblages are involved in the deployment of spatialized slow violence, especially through what I define as the political production of expo…
Deaths and Disappearances in Migration to Europe: Exploring the Uses of a Transnationalized Category
The high number of persons lost, missing, or dead without confirmation of decease in the Euro-Mediterranean in the context of migration and seek of asylum pose a challenge to the technical and conceptual tools available in order to account for their lives. This article explores the reach and possible uses of the category of enforced disappearance. The genealogy of enforced disappearance in Latin America in the 1970s is presented and discussed in …
Desiertos, mares, islas: Geografías de intemperie como espacios de desaparición en contextos migratorios
La desaparición se entiende aquí como la producción de modos de existencia por fuera de los marcos de inscripción sociales y civiles. Se trata de un desacople entre la vida cualificada y la esfera de la mera supervivencia: una vida expuesta, vulnerable, nuda. Esta definición revela una correspondencia íntima con la frontera, instancia en la que la protección de un estado es puesta en suspenso en forma más o menos temporal. La ampliación del espac…
Das biopolitische Schisma: Materielle und symbolische Abgrenzungen entlang der EU-Grenzen
Europe and the migrant’s gaze: Three approaches to migration in research and film
This article explores questions of positionality in relation to the gaze towards migrants; it is centred on an analysis of three films produced in Europe in the wake of public discussions on migration. It argues that each of these films shows an affinity with one of three possible theoretical approaches in migration research: Fuocoammare is interpreted as corresponding to the mainstream scientific gaze and the humanitarian gesture; Les Sauteurs i…
The Anthropocene as Epistemic Crisis: The EU Green Deal From the Perspective of Latin American Decolonial Critique
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration and Exile Studies (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works)