Professional Documents
Culture Documents
5 March 2020
Borders of Europe
GUEST LECTURE
› What is so special about the
Borders of Europe and/or the
EU?
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‘Psychologizing’ the EU’s ENP
border as ..
› Imperial territorialisation
› Constitutive of ‘Home’
› Delivering Enjoyment
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What is the ENP (European
neighborhood Policy)?
› Ukraine = Morocco
› What is special about Morocco?
› What does that implicitly tell you?
› Russia = Ukraine
- No geopolitical hierarchy
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Seeing like…
› It is not like ‘Seeing like the EU’
› Seeing the ideological reasons, tactics, means and
problems which is entailed in managing the Unions
borders.
› The realm of high politics and principled
statements
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What kind of Space is a
‘Neighbourhood’
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Civilising the Near abroad
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Meta-Cultural Community
› International politics increasingly shaped by interactions btw ’Civilisations’
› Civilisation; Macro-cultural unit - several nation-states: one common
religion
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Neo-imperial Capabilities and Dilemmas
The more we protect against migrants the more we endanger
them. The border guards end up charged with helping those
against which they protect us.
› The increasing harshness of border policies might
undermine the values of the community they protect.
› In the end non-EU must be recruited to help protect
against non-EU
› This is a different imperial territoriality than the expansion
of Union territory
› The idea of governing at a distance.
› ENP as ‘pre’-border securitised space, not as civilising gesture
› Imperial borderwork of controlling the space before the border.
› The expansive gesture potentially in conflict with values rather than expression 17
of them
The Imperial double bind
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Home making
› EU is a territorialisation of Europe
› But it also defines itself in contrast
to the Westphalian nation-state
project
› The game-changer:
› Migration challenges all liberal states
and prioritises the states particularity
as a secure bounded territory
› Migration is likewise pushing the EU
in a Westphalian direction.
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The psychological centrality of
Home
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Winnicott and home
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Psychologizing home
› Home central to self-stabilization
› Home:
› Routinised, familiar routines
› Safe space for experiences and novelties ‘in private’
› Refuge against overwhelming world
› Home is (non)temporal, nothing should change
› This means
› 1) the container imagery of the home land is not natural
but a securitization
› 2) focussing instead on centring and ‘being through
becoming’ might better ground a post-Westphalian order
› The Hearth and the membrane..
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A different domo-politics for Europe
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Borders of Desire
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Fantasy and Jouissance
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Identification and Desire
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