Anne Mcnevin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 81767 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anne Mcnevin |
| PRENOMES | Anne |
| SOBRENOME | Mcnevin |
| ASSINATURA | MCNEVIN A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7746-2105 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 357 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Mobile temporalities and political possibilities
This special issue advances a research agenda on mobile temporalities—the multiple, dynamic temporal orders that intersect with human mobility to shape political life. While the “temporal turn” in Migration Studies has illuminated the governance of migrants through time (waiting, delay, acceleration), we argue that it remains constrained by a linear, incorporative orientation that centers citizenship as the teleological endpoint. We propose a shi…
Zombies, Miracles, and Memory
This article introduces a research agenda for reimagining political possibilities by placing multiple temporalities at the centre of analyses of human mobility. While recent scholarship in migration studies has taken a ‘temporal turn’ by exploring how states use time to regulate movement – through delay, stoppage, or acceleration – we call for a broader conceptual shift: from understanding time as a tool of control to recognising temporality as a…
The city and the clock in planetary times
This article highlights the profound contribution to Citizenship Studies of Engin Isin’s Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship. Over the last twenty years, scholars have drawn on this seminal work to show how those positioned at the margins of citizenship have been central to its transformation. Key to Isin’s approach is the notion of the city as a difference machine – a paradigmatic formulation that captures the social and spatial dimensio…
Sanctuary Says
In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including its tensions and risks. This short piece is an attempt to bring together the sentiments expressed in those workshops by activists, organizers, students and academics focusing on anti-racist, pro-migrant,…
Who makes the count? Pushing beyond migrants and migration
Minor keywords of political theory
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
L’urgence de l’imagination
Cinq idées-force pour avancer dans l’analyse des migrations : les frontières ne sont pas ce qu’elles semblent, la souveraineté n’est pas qu’une fatalité, la souveraineté n’est pas singulière, citoyens et migrants n’ont pas nécessairement des intérêts opposés, la poésie peut être essentielle
Time and the Figure of the Citizen
Mobility and its discontents
Why do international space and progressive time continue to be taken as the given foundations for the conditions under which mobility can be governed? Despite a long-standing critique of prevailing geopolitical and chronopolitical assumptions, these space–time parameters exhibit extraordinary tenacity. This article grapples with the reasons why. It also asks what it would it take to imagine a future in which questions about human mobility did not…
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants - a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indone…
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants -a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indones…
Hospitality as a Horizon of Aspiration (or, What the International Refugee Regime Can Learn from Acehnese Fishermen)
In May 2015, Acehnese fishermen rescued over 1,800 displaced Rohingya who were stranded in the Andaman Sea. They did so in the face of a regional governmental stand-off that threatened to leave the Rohingya to drown. What compelled the fishermen and the villages from which they came to respond in this way? How might this example be instructive for an international refugee regime that failed in this case, as in others, to offer even the most basic…
Learning to live with irregular migration
What might be gained by learning to live with ‘the problem’ of irregular migration, rather than attempting to solve it? This article engages two senses of ‘the problem’ at stake: first, the ongoing nature of displacement and migration and second, the contested justice claims that sit behind different policy perspectives. The second sense of the problem (its political dimension) is rarely addressed explicitly in public debate. Yet direct engagemen…
The Rationalities of Migration Management
This article examines an Australian-funded counter-smuggling campaign delivered in Indonesia from 2009 to 2014 as an example of the global regulatory regime known as Migration Management. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indonesia among the fishing communities targeted by the campaign, we problematize the campaign’s purported success. The appearance of success, we argue, is linked to four interrelated rationalities of governance—security, humani…
Movement and the Ordering of Freedom
Hagar Kotef has written an insightful, thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging book that brings a fresh theoretical perspective on the intersections between borders, mobility and liberalism. Her proposition is that freedom and violence are two sides of the same liberal coin that manifest in the long-standing governmental effort to control human movement. In a compelling and wide-ranging analysis that moves from Hobbes and Locke to Israeli check…
Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
This chapter examines forced migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, focusing on the connections between political shifts and migratory movements between the regions. It looks at Australia and New Zealand as destinations for asylum seekers and refugees, and the Pacific as a source region for climate-induced and other forms of forced migration. After providing a historical background on forced migration in the region, as well…
Beyond territoriality
The key contention of this article is that contemporary practices of border security threaten to outrun the explanatory capacity of the spatial (territorial) and subject (citizen/migrant) registers habitually employed to think through human mobility. This represents a political problem as much as an empirical one. First, it implies that migration scholarship deploying categories of analysis informed by prevailing registers offers a limited perspe…
Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
1. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes: Introduction Manfred B. Steger (RMIT University, Professor of Global Studies) and Anne McNevin (RMIT University, Research Fellow) 2. After Neoliberalization? Neil Brenner (New York University, Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies), Jamie Peck (University of British Columbia, Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy) and Nik Theodore (University of Illinois, Chicago, Associ…
Ambivalence and Citizenship
Irregular migration gives rise to political claims that test the limits of political community and the expression of human rights in an increasingly interconnected world. This article provides a theorisation of the political claims of irregular migrants that starts with the notion of ambivalence. I argue that the ambivalence present in such claims can be understood as a political resource that is generative of new political relations across the t…
Contesting Citizenship
This book investigates the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, and argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, one that is formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization. It describes how irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. It explains that this group is comprised of refugees, asylum…
Contesting Citizenship
Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) c…
Border Policing and Sovereign Terrain
This paper investigates the spatial frames that are mobilised in the discourse and practice of border policing in the Australian context and the ideological content in which those frames are embedded. On the one hand, a deterritorialised frame positions unwanted migrants as a global threat from beyond. On the other, a territorialised frame enables the possibility of sovereign territorial defence. Neither of these frames, I contend, adequately cap…
Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
This article introduces the central problematic behind this special edition: the intersection of language and space as reflected in the interplay of global ideologies and urban landscapes. We aim to illuminate and problematise the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena by grounding our analyses in cities of the global North and South. We outline our reasons for this focus in relation to the prominence of space in contem…
Contesting Citizenship
In recent years, irregular migrants have mobilised, marched, occupied buildings, rioted, gone on strike, petitioned, blogged, written manifestos, and generally brought attention to their long-term presence in states where they live with the constant threat of deportation. What do these diverse mobilisations reveal about the dynamics of citizenship in an age of globalisation? This article reflects upon these theoretically neglected sites of growin…
Irregular migrants, neoliberal geographies and spatial frontiers of ‘the political’
In this article I argue that the demands of irregular migrants to belong to political communities constitute key contemporary sites of ‘the political’. I also argue that geographies associated with neoliberal globalisation (transnational production circuits, special economic zones and global cities) are implicated in irregular migration flows and in new conceptions of political belonging. In relation to these claims, I reflect upon recent mobilis…
Ambivalence and Citizenship
Irregular migration gives rise to political claims that test the limits of political community and the expression of human rights in an increasingly interconnected world. This article provides a theorisation of the political claims of irregular migrants that starts with the notion of ambivalence. I argue that the ambivalence present in such claims can be understood as a political resource that is generative of new political relations across the t…
Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era
This article argues that political belonging should be understood in the context of diverse spatial imaginaries which encompass but are not confined to the state. Engin Isin's approach to citizenship provides a theoretical grounding for this claim. By way of demonstration, the article focuses on the spatially reconfigured practices of the neoliberal state in relation to irregular migration. It shows how the policing of irregular migration sustain…
Minor keywords of political theory
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
Contesting Citizenship
In recent years, irregular migrants have mobilised, marched, occupied buildings, rioted, gone on strike, petitioned, blogged, written manifestos, and generally brought attention to their long-term presence in states where they live with the constant threat of deportation. What do these diverse mobilisations reveal about the dynamics of citizenship in an age of globalisation? This article reflects upon these theoretically neglected sites of growin…
Irregular migrants, neoliberal geographies and spatial frontiers of ‘the political’
In this article I argue that the demands of irregular migrants to belong to political communities constitute key contemporary sites of ‘the political’. I also argue that geographies associated with neoliberal globalisation (transnational production circuits, special economic zones and global cities) are implicated in irregular migration flows and in new conceptions of political belonging. In relation to these claims, I reflect upon recent mobilis…
Time and the Figure of the Citizen
The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia
This article interprets the politics of asylum in Australia in light of what James Hollifield calls 'the liberal paradox'; that is, the trend amongst contemporary states towards greater transnational open-ness in the economic arena alongside growing pressure for domestic political closure. It begins with an outline of Australia's recent history of economic reform and of the discourse of globalisation that has been employed to legitimise the chang…
Hospitality as a Horizon of Aspiration (or, What the International Refugee Regime Can Learn from Acehnese Fishermen)
In May 2015, Acehnese fishermen rescued over 1,800 displaced Rohingya who were stranded in the Andaman Sea. They did so in the face of a regional governmental stand-off that threatened to leave the Rohingya to drown. What compelled the fishermen and the villages from which they came to respond in this way? How might this example be instructive for an international refugee regime that failed in this case, as in others, to offer even the most basic…
The Rationalities of Migration Management
This article examines an Australian-funded counter-smuggling campaign delivered in Indonesia from 2009 to 2014 as an example of the global regulatory regime known as Migration Management. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indonesia among the fishing communities targeted by the campaign, we problematize the campaign’s purported success. The appearance of success, we argue, is linked to four interrelated rationalities of governance—security, humani…
Mobility and its discontents
Why do international space and progressive time continue to be taken as the given foundations for the conditions under which mobility can be governed? Despite a long-standing critique of prevailing geopolitical and chronopolitical assumptions, these space–time parameters exhibit extraordinary tenacity. This article grapples with the reasons why. It also asks what it would it take to imagine a future in which questions about human mobility did not…
Beyond territoriality
The key contention of this article is that contemporary practices of border security threaten to outrun the explanatory capacity of the spatial (territorial) and subject (citizen/migrant) registers habitually employed to think through human mobility. This represents a political problem as much as an empirical one. First, it implies that migration scholarship deploying categories of analysis informed by prevailing registers offers a limited perspe…
Zombies, Miracles, and Memory
This article introduces a research agenda for reimagining political possibilities by placing multiple temporalities at the centre of analyses of human mobility. While recent scholarship in migration studies has taken a ‘temporal turn’ by exploring how states use time to regulate movement – through delay, stoppage, or acceleration – we call for a broader conceptual shift: from understanding time as a tool of control to recognising temporality as a…
Learning to live with irregular migration
What might be gained by learning to live with ‘the problem’ of irregular migration, rather than attempting to solve it? This article engages two senses of ‘the problem’ at stake: first, the ongoing nature of displacement and migration and second, the contested justice claims that sit behind different policy perspectives. The second sense of the problem (its political dimension) is rarely addressed explicitly in public debate. Yet direct engagemen…
Border Policing and Sovereign Terrain
This paper investigates the spatial frames that are mobilised in the discourse and practice of border policing in the Australian context and the ideological content in which those frames are embedded. On the one hand, a deterritorialised frame positions unwanted migrants as a global threat from beyond. On the other, a territorialised frame enables the possibility of sovereign territorial defence. Neither of these frames, I contend, adequately cap…
Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
This article introduces the central problematic behind this special edition: the intersection of language and space as reflected in the interplay of global ideologies and urban landscapes. We aim to illuminate and problematise the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena by grounding our analyses in cities of the global North and South. We outline our reasons for this focus in relation to the prominence of space in contem…
The city and the clock in planetary times
This article highlights the profound contribution to Citizenship Studies of Engin Isin’s Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship. Over the last twenty years, scholars have drawn on this seminal work to show how those positioned at the margins of citizenship have been central to its transformation. Key to Isin’s approach is the notion of the city as a difference machine – a paradigmatic formulation that captures the social and spatial dimensio…
Who makes the count? Pushing beyond migrants and migration
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants -a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indones…
Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era
This article argues that political belonging should be understood in the context of diverse spatial imaginaries which encompass but are not confined to the state. Engin Isin's approach to citizenship provides a theoretical grounding for this claim. By way of demonstration, the article focuses on the spatially reconfigured practices of the neoliberal state in relation to irregular migration. It shows how the policing of irregular migration sustain…
Irregular migrants, neoliberal geographies and spatial frontiers of ‘the political’
In this article I argue that the demands of irregular migrants to belong to political communities constitute key contemporary sites of ‘the political’. I also argue that geographies associated with neoliberal globalisation (transnational production circuits, special economic zones and global cities) are implicated in irregular migration flows and in new conceptions of political belonging. In relation to these claims, I reflect upon recent mobilis…
The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia
This article interprets the politics of asylum in Australia in light of what James Hollifield calls 'the liberal paradox'; that is, the trend amongst contemporary states towards greater transnational open-ness in the economic arena alongside growing pressure for domestic political closure. It begins with an outline of Australia's recent history of economic reform and of the discourse of globalisation that has been employed to legitimise the chang…
Contesting Citizenship
In recent years, irregular migrants have mobilised, marched, occupied buildings, rioted, gone on strike, petitioned, blogged, written manifestos, and generally brought attention to their long-term presence in states where they live with the constant threat of deportation. What do these diverse mobilisations reveal about the dynamics of citizenship in an age of globalisation? This article reflects upon these theoretically neglected sites of growin…
Border Policing and Sovereign Terrain
This paper investigates the spatial frames that are mobilised in the discourse and practice of border policing in the Australian context and the ideological content in which those frames are embedded. On the one hand, a deterritorialised frame positions unwanted migrants as a global threat from beyond. On the other, a territorialised frame enables the possibility of sovereign territorial defence. Neither of these frames, I contend, adequately cap…
Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
This article introduces the central problematic behind this special edition: the intersection of language and space as reflected in the interplay of global ideologies and urban landscapes. We aim to illuminate and problematise the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena by grounding our analyses in cities of the global North and South. We outline our reasons for this focus in relation to the prominence of space in contem…
Contesting Citizenship
This book investigates the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, and argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) condition of global capitalism, one that is formed by the fast-tracked processes of globalization. It describes how irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. It explains that this group is comprised of refugees, asylum…
Contesting Citizenship
Irregular migrants complicate the boundaries of citizenship and stretch the parameters of political belonging. Comprised of refugees, asylum seekers, "illegal" labor migrants, and stateless persons, this group of migrants occupies new sovereign spaces that generate new subjectivities. Investigating the role of irregular migrants in the transformation of citizenship, Anne McNevin argues that irregular status is an immanent (rather than aberrant) c…
Ambivalence and Citizenship
Irregular migration gives rise to political claims that test the limits of political community and the expression of human rights in an increasingly interconnected world. This article provides a theorisation of the political claims of irregular migrants that starts with the notion of ambivalence. I argue that the ambivalence present in such claims can be understood as a political resource that is generative of new political relations across the t…
Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes
1. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes: Introduction Manfred B. Steger (RMIT University, Professor of Global Studies) and Anne McNevin (RMIT University, Research Fellow) 2. After Neoliberalization? Neil Brenner (New York University, Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies), Jamie Peck (University of British Columbia, Canada Research Chair in Urban and Regional Political Economy) and Nik Theodore (University of Illinois, Chicago, Associ…
Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific
This chapter examines forced migration in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, focusing on the connections between political shifts and migratory movements between the regions. It looks at Australia and New Zealand as destinations for asylum seekers and refugees, and the Pacific as a source region for climate-induced and other forms of forced migration. After providing a historical background on forced migration in the region, as well…
Beyond territoriality
The key contention of this article is that contemporary practices of border security threaten to outrun the explanatory capacity of the spatial (territorial) and subject (citizen/migrant) registers habitually employed to think through human mobility. This represents a political problem as much as an empirical one. First, it implies that migration scholarship deploying categories of analysis informed by prevailing registers offers a limited perspe…
Movement and the Ordering of Freedom
Hagar Kotef has written an insightful, thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging book that brings a fresh theoretical perspective on the intersections between borders, mobility and liberalism. Her proposition is that freedom and violence are two sides of the same liberal coin that manifest in the long-standing governmental effort to control human movement. In a compelling and wide-ranging analysis that moves from Hobbes and Locke to Israeli check…
The Rationalities of Migration Management
This article examines an Australian-funded counter-smuggling campaign delivered in Indonesia from 2009 to 2014 as an example of the global regulatory regime known as Migration Management. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indonesia among the fishing communities targeted by the campaign, we problematize the campaign’s purported success. The appearance of success, we argue, is linked to four interrelated rationalities of governance—security, humani…
Learning to live with irregular migration
What might be gained by learning to live with ‘the problem’ of irregular migration, rather than attempting to solve it? This article engages two senses of ‘the problem’ at stake: first, the ongoing nature of displacement and migration and second, the contested justice claims that sit behind different policy perspectives. The second sense of the problem (its political dimension) is rarely addressed explicitly in public debate. Yet direct engagemen…
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants - a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indone…
Luxury limbo
In this article, we examine temporal techniques of border control including prolonged periods of waiting, stasis and indeterminacy that increasingly characterise the experience of refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants. We argue that these temporal techniques are enhanced and legitimised by parallel efforts to improve accommodation for irregular migrants -a process we call the humanitarianisation of waiting. We focus on the Indones…
Hospitality as a Horizon of Aspiration (or, What the International Refugee Regime Can Learn from Acehnese Fishermen)
In May 2015, Acehnese fishermen rescued over 1,800 displaced Rohingya who were stranded in the Andaman Sea. They did so in the face of a regional governmental stand-off that threatened to leave the Rohingya to drown. What compelled the fishermen and the villages from which they came to respond in this way? How might this example be instructive for an international refugee regime that failed in this case, as in others, to offer even the most basic…
Mobility and its discontents
Why do international space and progressive time continue to be taken as the given foundations for the conditions under which mobility can be governed? Despite a long-standing critique of prevailing geopolitical and chronopolitical assumptions, these space–time parameters exhibit extraordinary tenacity. This article grapples with the reasons why. It also asks what it would it take to imagine a future in which questions about human mobility did not…
L’urgence de l’imagination
Cinq idées-force pour avancer dans l’analyse des migrations : les frontières ne sont pas ce qu’elles semblent, la souveraineté n’est pas qu’une fatalité, la souveraineté n’est pas singulière, citoyens et migrants n’ont pas nécessairement des intérêts opposés, la poésie peut être essentielle
Time and the Figure of the Citizen
Sanctuary Says
In 2018, the New School Working Group on Expanded Sanctuary collaboratively organized a series of workshops in New York to reflect on the question of sanctuary as a conceptual and practical starting point for cross-coalitional politics, including its tensions and risks. This short piece is an attempt to bring together the sentiments expressed in those workshops by activists, organizers, students and academics focusing on anti-racist, pro-migrant,…
Who makes the count? Pushing beyond migrants and migration
Minor keywords of political theory
Migration as a Critical Standpointbeginning, at the center of [our] project.Thinking about the meaning of a political concept should at the same time be a means of thinking about, and of making possible ways of intervening in, the political realities of the present" (2018:1).In this spirit, we seek to unsettle and disrupt the consensus around the selection of which keywords may be counted as vital for theorizing power, and to intervene in the pol…
The city and the clock in planetary times
This article highlights the profound contribution to Citizenship Studies of Engin Isin’s Being Political: Genealogies of Citizenship. Over the last twenty years, scholars have drawn on this seminal work to show how those positioned at the margins of citizenship have been central to its transformation. Key to Isin’s approach is the notion of the city as a difference machine – a paradigmatic formulation that captures the social and spatial dimensio…
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