https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:05:03 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/nonrecording-the-european-refugee-crisis-in-greece-navigating-through-irregular-bureaucracy/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:51 +0000 http://arc.local/items/nonrecording-the-european-refugee-crisis-in-greece-navigating-through-irregular-bureaucracy/ Continued]]> This article explores nonrecording on the borders of Europe during the “European refugee crisis” in 2015. It examines the ambiguous practices of border control and the diverse actors involved. Taking the island of Lesvos as its starting point, the article interrogates how state functionaries manage an “irregular” bureaucracy. Irregular bureaucracy is approached as an essential element of state-craft , rather than an indication of state failure. Nonrecording is thus a crucial site of contestation between the state, nonstate agents, and the government, as well as between Greece and “Europe.” Nevertheless, despite the prevalence of irregularity, the imagery associated with ideal bureaucracy—a system of absolute knowledge, control, and governance of populations—is powerful; and yet, the actors are fully aware that it is a fantasy.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/socialities-of-solidarity-revisiting-the-gift-taboo-in-times-of-crises/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:44 +0000 http://arc.local/items/socialities-of-solidarity-revisiting-the-gift-taboo-in-times-of-crises/ Continued]]> This article addresses solidarity and the opening of social spaces in the relations between refugees and residents of Greece who try to help them. ‘Socialities of solidarity’ materialise alternative worldviews; they are loci for the production of lateral relationships; places inhabited by the prospects that derive from the political production of sociality. The article discusses the ‘gift taboo’, dominant in the pre‐crisis era, that reflects the risks of giving to the formation of horizontal relationships. In the contemporary ‘European refugee crisis, and other crises, the gift taboo has collapsed, posing challenges to the egalitarian visions of sociality.

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