CASCA2014 CFP: Plenary: “Unsettled Politics and Radical Potential: Figuring the Impulse to Act” - Panel: Moving Targets: The Radical Potential of Migrant Activism in Uncertain Times

CfP

*Submission Deadline Extended*: February 13, 2014

Conference: CASCA 2014

Plenary: "Unsettled Politics and Radical Potential: Figuring the Impulse
to Act"
http://casca2014.apps01.yorku.ca/plenary/

Panel: Moving Targets: The Radical Potential of Migrant Activism in
Uncertain Times
Organizers: Othon Alexandrakis (York University, oalexand@yorku.ca),
Daphne Winland (York University, winland@yorku.ca), Antonio Sorge (York
University, asorge@yorku.ca), Maya Shapiro (York University,
shapirom@yorku.ca)
Discussant: Sara Shneiderman, Yale University

Structures and experiences of migration increasingly constitute the raw
material for radical political action(s) directed at national and
supranational entities. Uncertainty figures into these actions and
processes in especially salient ways as both the goals of activism as well
as activists themselves are 'moving targets,' defined by conditions of
liminality, instability and/or modes of becoming. This panel considers how
patterns and processes of mobility configure political action, exploring
how uncertainty is not an abstract notion, but an empirical reality that
is well-known, carefully considered and sometimes used as a tool for
change by migrant activists and their allies. Presenters on this panel may
take up a variety of questions related to fluctuations in borders,
citizenship and/or activist collectives. All will address the radical
potential of migrant activism and the ways in which it confronts,
circumnavigates and/or depends upon uncertainty to carry out visions of a
different future.

Please submit your paper proposal including title, an abstract (max 150
words), your name, email address and affiliation to oalexand@yorku.ca no
later than February 13th.