| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Social justice |
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Social justice (Abingdon, England)
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| Contents |
Immigration detention and anti-detention activism -- Representation and post-representational politics -- Post-representational solidarity in anti-detention protest -- The hospitality politics of immigration detention visiting -- Post-representational witnessing in the anti-detention movement -- Accountability and affinity in post-representational politics |
| Summary |
"This book is an engagement with the politics of immigration detention and deportation. Focusing on the constitutive tensions and political generativity within the activist practices of the anti-detention movement, this book examines the distinction between representational and post-representational political sensibilities. Representational politics centres on representing the interests of disenfranchised people to the state and public and operates primarily within the regime of immigration law. Post-representational politics focuses on working collaboratively with those in detention, to resist and challenge the deportation system. Since representational politics is the predominant political imaginary of migrant rights campaigning, the book focuses on illustrating and evaluating the role of post-representational politics. The book argues that the concept of post-representational politics is important for understanding and participating in radical opposition to state racism. This argument rests on the expanded possibilities it motivates of engaging with and resisting institutions that are poised to co-opt resistance; the attention it fosters to the situated power dynamics of political activities that collaborate with imprisoned people; and its sensitivity to the politically and conceptually generative capacities of everyday, embodied practices of resistance. To make this argument, this book employs methodology to illuminate and engage with the practice-based thinking of activist movements about the concepts of solidarity, hospitality, witnessing and accountability"-- Provided by the publisher |
| Notes |
"A GlassHouse book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Tom Kemp is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 23, 2024) |
| Subject |
Noncitizens -- Great Britain.
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Illegal immigration -- Great Britain
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain
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Detention of persons -- Great Britain
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Deportation -- Great Britain
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Emigration and immigration law -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
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Social justice -- Great Britain
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Activism -- Great Britain
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Activism.
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Deportation.
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Detention of persons.
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Illegal immigration.
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Noncitizens.
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Refugees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023035868 |
| ISBN |
9781003185864 |
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100318586X |
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9781003823698 |
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1003823696 |
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9781003823650 |
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1003823653 |
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