Beyond citizenship

The Material Politics of Alternative Infrastructures

Bibliographic Data

ID5115475
AuthorsFredy Mora Gámez (0000-0001-8057-8838, Linköping University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume24
Issue5
Pages696-711
Publication date2020-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2020.1784648
OpenAlexW3037378156
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited37

This paper argues for a line of inquiry in the intersection between migration studies and STS work around the notion of material politics in alternative spaces. Drawing on multisited ethnographic inputs, I describe arrangements of cooperation coexisting with post-conflict reparation in Colombia and governmental humanitarianism in Greece. I follow material practices transforming objects into arrangements of remembrance and collective support and address the orders enacted by these practices as alternative infrastructures challenging infrastructures of migration control. The notion of alternative infrastructures offers the possibility to epistemically explore an overlooked angle by citizenship studies and STS; it engages with the objects and relations embedded in the materiality of everyday life and its politics beyond the boundaries of instituted forms of citizenship

Aesthetics · Citizenship · Epistemology · Ethnography · Everyday life · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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