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Transeuropa Festıval 4 TRANSEUROPA FESTıVAL ÜBERMAUER / BEYOND THE WALL / OLTREMURO PALERMO h 6 TH - 10TH NOVEMBER 2019 Every city is a community by itself, once wrote Aristotle, thereby revealing Ogni città è una comunità a sé stante, scriveva Aristotele, rivelando così la the great tension that still accompanies us today: that between the universalism grande tensione che ancora oggi ci accompagna: quella tra l'universalismo di of notions such as humanity and justice and the often exclusionary character of nozioni come umanità e giustizia e il carattere spesso escludente della polis, uno the polis, a space defined by contrast with those who have no right of citizenship. spazio definito per contrasto con chi non ha diritto di cittadinanza. Indeed, each border draws a line of demarcation that simultaneously includes Ogni confine traccia infatti una linea di demarcazione che al tempo stesso include and excludes: it identifies the us, the space of familiarity and solidarity, and the ed esclude: identifica il noi, lo spazio di familiarità e solidarietà, e l'altro, lo spazio di other, the space of estrangement and indifference. Each wall embraces the fri- estraniamento e indifferenza. Ogni muro abbraccia l'amico e stigmatizza il nemico. end and stigmatises the enemy. Ma è possibile stabilire una co- But is it possible to establish a munità politica sulla trascenden- political community on transcen- za del confine? È possibile risol- dence of the wall? Is it possible vere quella che Zygmunt Bauman to solve what Zygmunt Bauman considerava la grande sfida del considered the great challenge of nostro tempo, ossia "progettare - our time, namely "to plan - for per la prima volta nella storia de- the first time in human history - ll'umanità - un'integrazione non an integration that is no longer più basata sulla separazione"? based on separation"? Questa sarà la domanda portan- This will be the guiding questi- te di questa edizione di TRAN- on of this edition of TRANSEU- SEUROPA Festival. Una do- ROPA Festival. It is a question manda che va al cuore di un'in- that goes to the heart of a cul- iziativa culturale e politica che tural and political initiative that da oltre un decennio attraversa has been criss-crossing Europe l'Europa per difendere "la de- for over a decade advocating for mocrazia, l'uguaglianza e la cul- "democracy, equality and culture tura oltre lo Stato nazione". beyond the nation state". E questa è anche una domanda This is also a question closely che interagisce fortemente con connected to the city of Paler- la città di Palermo, la città che mo, the host of this year's edi- ospita questa edizione del festi- tion. A city at the centre of the val. Una città al centro del Me- Mediterranean boasting a trans- THOMAS EIRICH-SCHNEIDER, 2019. Yvan Sagnet walks as Jesus over the water, Videostill. diterraneo con una vocazione cultural and intersectional voca- transculturale e intersezionale tion experienced lin an entirely compromising way. Palermo is a microcosm vissuta in modo del tutto compromettente. Palermo è un microcosmo attraver- crossed by contradictions and conflicts, experiences and stories that are abso- sato da contraddizioni e conflitti, esperienze e storie che risultano assolutamente lutely irreducible to any single identity. irriducibili ad ogni singola identità. While Italy has recently stood out for its nationalist drive, the city of Palermo Se l’Italia si è recentemente distinta per le sue pulsioni nazionaliste, la città di tells a story of openness and of a global challenge. Palermo is the city of those Palermo racconta invece una storia di apertura e di sfida globale. Palermo è la who save lives at sea and of a new local sense of belonging, of hospitality and città di chi salva vite in mare e del nuovo municipalismo, dell’accoglienza e of new energy in the South del nuovo protagonismo del Sud. With this edition, TRANSEUROPA Festival joins hands with BAM - Bienna- Con questa edizione, TRANSEUROPA Festival si unisce a BAM - Biennale le Arcipelago Mediterraneo, a powerful new initiative launched in 2017 by the Arcipelago Mediterraneo, una nuova e potente iniziativa lanciata nel 2017 dal City of Palermo. The programme of Transeuropa is in synergy with the wider Comune di Palermo. Il programma di Transeuropa sarà collocato in sinergia con program of the Biennale, an example of virtuous cooperation and transcenden- il più ampio programma della Biennale in un esempio di cooperazione virtuosa ce of borders. e trascendenza dei confini. We invite you to Palermo to discover the city beyond the wall. Vi aspettiamo a Palermo per scoprire la città oltremuro. orders are the best friend of the environ- the issue threatens human life on the entire planet of climate emergency, Europe has a historical duty ment', Jordan Bardella, the top candidate both now and even more for future generations; the not only for its role in creating the crisis in the whole 'Bof the far-right Rassemblement National in distance between the agent causing damaging climate world, but also in finding solutions to it which ensure France said in the run up to the European elections. change and the community suffering its effects is of- liberty, equality and democracy are not sacrificed in With such a statement, and similar statements by ten very large. Both of these factors mean that cli- the name of survival. Marine Le Pen and other right wing candidates mate change is an international issue, which has to throughout the northern European countries ex- be dealt with politically on the international stage. Europe for the Many, an international conference November 8, 2019 • Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri • Co-organised ploiting a sense of emergency to encourage ne- We currently lack a model of international decision with the London School of Economics, Università di Palermo and ofascist thoughts of population control, the impli- making which can adequately deal with an issue of IWM Vienna and Green European Journal. cations of climate change have become politicised this scale and complexity - every experience from The Europe for the Many conference, will take place at the Uni- versity of Palermo as part of Transeuropa Festival. The confer- to an unprecedented degree for Europe. The core Rio to the Paris summit testifies to the inadequacy ence will bring together politicians, intellectuals and activists from political debate is no longer about whether climate of global summits. Here the European Union has an throughout the continent to build together a common program for ecological, social and democratic transformation of Europe. Some change is happening, or who is to blame, but rather important role to play: it is the only existing non-na- of the confirmed speakers are Mary Kaldor, Kalypso Nicoladis, how the crisis should be addressed and who will tional set of institutions which attempts to deal with Shanin Vallee, Marco Cappato, Anna Cavazzini, and the Mayor of pay the costs, with a wide array of ideological op- cross-border issues in a democratic and peaceful way, Izmir. The conference will explore different visions for how Europe could promote a reconciliation of planetary responsibility, personal tions open ranging from the most nativist and au- through discursive politics and agreement rather than liberty and social equality in a world in which both social injustice thoritarian to ecological anarchism. through geopolitical strategy and power balancing. If and natural resources are burning and the political climate tends towards authoritarianism. As extreme climate change becomes ever more the climate issue is now a priority in European pol- visible, and affects different people in unequal and itics from left to right, the way it is discussed in the Le frontiere sono il migliore amico dell'ambiente", differentiated ways, politics as a whole system will European Parliament, in the European Council and ha detto Jordan Bardella, il candidato principale del necessarily adapt. Elsewhere in the world the climate in the various overlapping public spheres of Europe Rassemblement National di estrema destra in Francia, crisis has been profoundly influencing politics for is an urgently needed prototype of how it can be dis- nella corsa alle elezioni europee. Con una tale dichi- some time, both in democracies and in dictatorships: cussed in global settings. arazione, e dichiarazioni analoghe di Marine Le Pen e arguably the Syrian civil war has been in part a war This task will be made even more challenging by di altri candidati di destra in tutti i paesi del nord Eu- the fact that the European Union itself is contested as ropa che sfruttano il senso di emergenza per incorag- a model of cooperation, most notably by Brexit. But giare pensieri neofascisti sul controllo della popolazi- here some hope may be found that Brexit has created one, le implicazioni del cambiamento climatico sono an unprecedented radicalisation of a young generation diventate politicizzate ad un livello senza precedenti Europe for in the UK which sees the connections between fight- per l'Europa. Il dibattito politico di fondo non è più ing climate change, fighting for migrant rights, and quello di stabilire se il cambiamento climatico sta av- advancing democracy: in this sense Brexit is a crucial venendo, o chi ne è responsabile, ma piuttosto come battle for the future of the European Union, because affrontare la crisi e chi ne pagherà i costi, con un'am- the Many if it is reversed, it will be thanks to this new coalition pia gamma di opzioni ideologiche aperte che vanno of young radicals, who will then join the rest of their dal più nativista e autoritario all'anarchismo ecologico. By Niccolò Milanese generation across the continent and set their sights on Man mano che i cambiamenti climatici estremi reforming the EU’s distant institutions. diventano sempre più visibili e colpiscono persone about water, the recent Indian and Australian elec- This leads to the fact that Europe has another cru- diverse in modo disuguale e differenziato, la politi- tions - both won by the right-wing - were dominated cial responsibility in the coming epoch of climate ca nel suo complesso si adatterà necessariamente.
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