Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.

The Production of Space

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality

Many studies highlight the macro-level dissemination of global culture and institutions. This article focuses on social remittances--a local-level migration-driven form of cultural diffusion. Social remittances are the ideas behaviors identities and social capital that flow from receiving- to sending-country communities. The role that these resources play in promoting immigrant entrepreneurship community and family formation and political integration is widely acknowledged. This article specifies how these same ideas and practices are remolded in receiving countries the mechanisms by which they are sent back to sending communities and the role they play in transforming sending-country social and political life. The data concern migrants from the Dominican Republic to the Boston area of the United States. (EXCERPT)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2547666.pdf

Social remittances: migration driven local-level forms of cultural diffusion.

Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty by Aihwa Ong

The neoliberal university requires high productivity in compressed time frames. Though the neoliberal transformation of the university is well documented, the isolating effects and embodied work conditions of such increasing demands are too rarely discussed. In this article, we develop a feminist ethics of care that challenges these working conditions. Our politics foreground collective action and the contention that good scholarship requires time: to think, write, read, research, analyze, edit, organize, and resist the growing administrative and professional demands that disrupt these crucial processes of intellectual growth and personal freedom. This collectively written article explores alternatives to the fast-paced, metric-oriented neoliberal university through a slow-moving conversation on ways to slow down and claim time for slow scholarship and collective action informed by feminist politics. We examine temporal regimes of the neoliberal university and their embodied effects. We then consider strategies for slowing scholarship with the objective of contributing to the slow scholarship movement. This slowing down represents both a commitment to good scholarship, teaching, and service and a collective feminist ethics of care that challenges the accelerated time and elitism of the neoliberal university. Above all, we argue in favor of the slow scholarship movement and contribute some resistance strategies that foreground collaborative, collective, communal ways forward.

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For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University

Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies

Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border

The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum on islands

This article examines topographies and counter-topographies of power operating transnationally across a range of sites inhabited by asylum-seekers en route between nation-states. In locations such as tunnels, detention centers and islands, journeys across time and space are truncated in myriad ways. For asylum-seekers, temporality is often conceptualized as waiting, limbo or suspension. These temporal zones map onto corresponding spatial ambiguities theorized here as liminality, exception and threshold. A feminist counter-topography of sites along time–space trajectories between states addresses both the architecture of exclusionary enforcement practices that capture bodies, and the transgressive struggles to map, locate, counter and migrate through the time–space trajectories between states. In outlining such counter-topography, the analysis enters into conversation with transnational feminist scholarship on politics of location and differentiation in order to challenge the universal dimensions of Giorgi...

Alison Mountz

Papers

For Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University

Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies

Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border

The enforcement archipelago: Detention, haunting, and asylum on islands

Where asylum-seekers wait: feminist counter-topographies of sites between states