Still Stuck Between War and City
A Response to Bauman and Malkki
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michel Agier (0000-0002-3416-4332, CEA/EHESS, 54 boulevard Raspail, 75006, Paris, France., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-366 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/146613802401092805 |
| OpenAlex | W2056078010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 10 |
I am very grateful to Liisa Malkki and Zygmunt Bauman for their close reading and stimulating comments on my article. Malkki's critique of the limitations of my case study and the conceptual insights suggested by Bauman both open up some fascinating questions and directions. There are many ways of going beyond my article, constrained as it was by the limits of scale and scope, and by its focus on describing a local situation in terms of one overriding question, that of the urbanity of, and in, the camps. I shall here point to some of the further possible developments that strike me as particularly fruitful by running through the two themes juxtaposed in the initial article, that of the urban study of the camps and that of their embeddedness in a global context of rising segregation of social outcasts. I return first to the hypothesis of camps as cities: my earlier research experience in the poor neighbourhoods and urban peripheries in Black Africa and Latin America (Agier, 1999) and the fact that I initially discov ered the question of forced displacements in an urban periphery that of the district of Agua Bianca, in Cali, Colombia led me to approach the question of the city-camps along a twofold track, at once practical and theoretical. In practice, I asked myself, upon returning from Colombia in 1999, what connections and differences are there between the least assisted and the most assisted among the people displaced by war for instance, between Colombia's internally displaced persons arriving, in large numbers but generally very discreetly and in small groups, in the dispossessed peripheries of cities where they form as it were the margin of the margin,1
Political science · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Homelessness and Social Issues · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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