Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces

Angharad Closs Stephens is Associate Professor in Human Geography at Swansea University, Cymru/Wales, UK. She is the author of National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political (2022), The Persistence of Nationalism: From imagined Communities to Urban Encounters (2013) and co‑editor with Nick Vaughan‑Williams of Terrorism and the Politics of Response (2009).Martina Tazzioli is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is the author of Border Abolitionism. Migration Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles and Rescue (2023), The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (2020), Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015) and co‑author with G. Garelli of Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (2016). She is co‑editor of Foucault and the History of our Present (2015) and Foucault and the Making of Subjects (2016). She is on the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy.

• 1. Collective Movements and Emerging Political Spaces: An Introduction Part I The Conditions of Being Political 2. International Political Sociology and Problematising Critique Part II Migrant Spaces 3. The Multiple Genealogies of Abolitionism: Undoing the Detractive Rights’ Logics and the Reform-Revolution Dichotomy 4. Unruly Migrations, Abolitionist Alternatives 5. CommemorAction 6. Affect, Uncertainty, and Exhaustion: Methodological Reflections on Migration Struggles and Governance Part III Affective Solidarities 7. Drowned World: Imagined Futures and Collective Movements 8. Senses of Togetherness in a Covid City 9. Foreignness /Forensis: Burdened Entanglement in the Black Mediterranean 10. The Libidinal Lives of Statues Part IV Emergent Politics 11. Examining Emerging Xenophobic Nationalism in Sweden: Transformations Between ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Civil Society 12. Examining the Limits of the Hospitable Nation: Hosting Schemes and Asylum Seeker’s Perspectives on Destitution 13. The Paradox of Anthropocene Inaction: Knowledge Production, Mobilization, and the Securitization of Social Relations 14. From Muscular Nationalisms to Struggles for Freedom 15. Afterword: Planetary Movements

‘An impressive and compelling edited volume on collective movements and the “counter-discourses” that characterise them. In our turbulent times, this volume provides a critical outlook at the idea of movement, both as mobilisation and emergence of new political subjectivities, engaging with politics of affect and emotions to reframe pressing topics such as migration and nationalism.’Annaclaudia Martini, University of Bologna, Italy