Contested Borderscapes Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe September 28 - October 1, 2017 International Conference Mytilene, Lesvos (Greece) University of the Aegean Invisible Cities Research Team Department of Geography Urban Geography & Planning Laboratory Population Movements Laboratory http://www.contested-borderscapes.net Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, September 28-October 1, 2017 Contents 01. calling 02. abstracts Name(s) Abstract Title pp IsshaQ Albarbary Camp as a Threshold Institution 15 Panayotis Antoniadis Tools for self-organization at the borders of research and 16 action Maurizio Artero Ethics of volunteering with migrants: voluntary work inside 18 the ‘disciplinary humanitarism’ of large reception centers Eirini Avramopoulou Space as an affective palimpsest: Critical locations of refuge 19 in different times of crisis Nishat Awan Edges of Europe 20 Nishat Awan Topological Atlas: Mapping contemporary borderscapes 21 José Azoh Barry En route to fortress Europe: refugees and asylum seekers’ 22 common strategies and struggles Ezgi Bakçay En route to fortress Europe: refugees and asylum seekers’ 24 Eda Yiğit common strategies and struggles Mina Baginova Towards the Cityscapes of Solidarity and Resistance? 25 Exercising the Radical Imagination in the European Cities after the Border Closure Selma Banich TRANS|MIGRANCY: there is no there there, nor here here 26 Merve Bedir Ana dana Beroš Matija Kralj Emma Barrett Palmer humanKINdER presents The Welcome Tent 27 Sparky Palmer Maria - Nerina Behind the fence: The construction of everyday life by the 29 Boursinou forced migrants in Greece. 1 Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, September 28-October 1, 2017 Alexandra Bousiou Governance responses to the “refugee crisis” at the gate of 31 Andrea Spehar Europe: The case of Lesvos Benjamin Busch Berlin Fence Memorial 32 Carlo Caprioglio Politics of the Uncertainty. The Hotspot approach and the 34 Francesco Ferri reshaping of EU migration management Lucia Gennari Anna Carastathis Facing Crisis: Queer Representations Against the Backdrop 36 Myrto Tsilimpounidi of Athens Sílvia Cardoso Mental maps of asylum seekers: spaces of im/mobillity, 38 individual strategies, practices and politics of mobility in the “refugee crisis” Codesign Research No way 40 Studio Ramón Córdova Ecologies of Migration: Metabolic Borderscapes and 41 González Relational Architectures Heidi Sohn Deanna Dadusc Refugees Social Movements and Solidarity Networks in The 43 Netherlands Secil dagtas Religious Engagements along the Turkish-Syrian Border 45 Jaime del Val Metatopia/Ontohacking Workshop – Metamedialab 46 Jaime del Val Metatopia/Ontohacking Workshop – Metamedialab 48 Jaime del Val Algorithmic borders and Post-biopolitical control. 50 Integration, assimilation, anticipation, modulation: New threats to plurality in the Algoricene Anna di Giusto Riace. The Laboratory of a New European Identity? 52 Morgane dujmovic Human after all. A participative web-project as resistance to 53 migration control Bikem Ekberzade Crossings 55 2 Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, September 28-October 1, 2017 James Ellison Freedom of movement struggles and border abolition : 57 Travis van Isacker solidarity, anarchist politics and decoloniality Stefano Fogliata Rethinking urban boundaries from the margins: practices of 59 spatial transgressions among Palestinians and Syrians in Beirut Marianna Fotaki Contesting borders: global refugees, dispossession and 61 Felicita Tramontana solidarity Ajnesh Prasad Alexis Bushnell Haneen Salameh Conor Kenny Anja Franck Survival And Predation In The Everyday Political Economy 63 Of The Refugee Emergency In Lesvos Lorena Gazzotti Border displacement and ambiguous discourses on human 65 rights at the EU South-Western frontier Francesca Genduso Shifting borders: the relegation of the rule of law and the 67 right to move Chiara Giubilaro Contested Gazes. Towards a critical topography of border 69 visual representations Cemile Gizem dinçer Possibilities of first-person narratives in the struggle against 70 Özlem Sarıyıldız xenophobia Dimitra Glenti “We took over by force what was not given to us civilly”. 72 Refugees claim their right to housing in a 1936 squatting incident in Mytilene Joseph Grim Feinberg Exile, Refugee, Proletarian 74 Sara Guagnini We (?) 75 Marieke Mamarazzi Britt Myren 3 Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, September 28-October 1, 2017 Dustin Gordon From Café Terecht to the Just People collective: reflections 77 on/from the borders of geography, social change and antiauthoritarian practices in Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dionysios Gouvias The struggle to become visible – Commoning practices in a 78 migrants’ informal settlement on the South-eastern Aegean Sea Panos Hatziprokopiou Border controls as enclosures, Camps as growth machines 80 Kristina Ilieva Border towns in Europe 82 Jelena Jovičić Constructing the ‘foreigner’: Discourses of suspicion 83 Sarah Philipson Isaac embedded in bordering practices Ilona Jurkonytė The Mediterranean Sea Cemetery. Wet Ontology of the 84 Unnamed Liam Healy Design Unlikely Futures and The ‘Jungle’ 85 Jimmy Loizeau Emmanouil Kalaintzis Asylum seekers and refugees with disabilities : the notion of 86 vulnerability, non-refoulement and current challenges under the new Asylum System Pafsanias Karathanasis Port cities as borderscapes and heterotopias: The case of 88 Athina Stamatopoulou Piraeus Alexandra Koptyaeva Inside Perspectives of Refugees on the Process of Border- 90 Crossing Yiannis Koukoulas Refugees depicted in Comics. documentation and Artistic 91 Giannis Michailidis Activism Penny - Panagiota Whose safety? debating the “safe countries” discourses 93 Koutrolikou Maria Kenti Kranidioti Performing borders everywhere: an ethnography of 94 displacement, exclusion and resistance in modern Athens Turan Keskin The History of Contraband Trade in the Borderlands 95 between Turkey-Iran and IraQ in 20th Century 4 Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, September 28-October 1, 2017 Mehmet Kurt Kurdistan in a Refugee Camp: The Kurdish Refugees’ 96 Experience of Belonging, Nationhood and Suffering in Greece Ernest Larsen Barbed Wire & Bulldozers 97 Sherry Millner Anna Lauenstein Thinking through the Transmediterranean. Could this 'ship' 99 transgress the imperial epistemic divides between 'self' and 'other'? Lila Leontidou Borders and shifting hinterlands in Mediterranean islands: 101 Lesvos and Corsica at the turn of the millennium Isabel Lima Broken Chords Can Sing A Little 103 Katerina Liontou The refugee crisis through Sophocles’ eyes: re-imagining 104 Maria Pantsidou heterotopias, body politics, subversion and Otherness Nadina Livaditi Humanitarian practices: the emergency that Lesvos was 106 under or imposed upon Sara Maani The Role of Collective Insurgent Practices of Refugees in 107 Making Future Cities Maria Margariti Borders and Boundaries in Greek Literature: The case of 109 Minor Asia Meltingpot Human Side Project 110 Andrea Panico Elena Prestt Marco Mogiani Spaces of resistance: structural forces and migrants’ 111 everyday lives in the port/border area of Patras Fredy Mora-Gámez Indicators and valuations technologies: on sociotechnical 113 borders and solidarity in Europe Leena NaQvi The inconspicuous contraband 114 Andreas Oberprantacher Architectures of deportation: The Shining Example of 116 Vordernberg 5 Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, September 28-October 1, 2017 Mezra Öner The Notion of Border: Nusaybin City; A Case of Urban 117 Yıldız Tahtacı Warfare Ethem Özgüven Borders - Refugee drama in public campaigns, experiences 118 Petra Holzer of crossborder-interdisciplinary work Maria Papanikolaou The Representation of Refugees in Visual Arts: A critical 120 approach Asimina Socio-spatial Integration: A two layered process 121 Paraskevopoulou Zuzana Pavelková State Responses to Cross-Border Activism on the Western- 123 Balkans Route to Europe: Between Criminalization and Cooperation Marta Perez Grasping enclosure's strategies: a workshop to open up 125 Irene Rodríguez Newey border practices in Southern and Eastern Europe Evie Papada The Politics of Humanitarianism and Security in Lesbos: 126 Antonis Vradis crafting a safe space Pauline Poulain In between: space, time and social liminality in migration 127 Power Makes us Sick The Accountability Model: Building Autonomous Health 128 Timokleia Psallidaki Were those who didn’t drown saved?*: Examining new 130 enclosure policies (*paraphrase of Primo Levi’s book: “The Drowned and the Saved”) Kavita Ramakrishnan The Volunteer-Refugee Encounter in the Management of 132 Ludek Stavinoha ‘Camps’: Reflections from Paris and Chios Álvaro Ramírez-March Frictions and articulations in Catalonia’s migrant rights 133 Marisela Montengro movement: the case of “Casa Nostra Casa Vostra” campaign Lorenzo Rinelli The Hauntology of Asylum: Aliens, Specters and Ghost 135 Towns in Europe Maria Rocco Reshaping the border. Informal zones of concentration as a 136 ground for migrants’ agency 6 Contested Borderscapes: Transnational Geographies vis-à-vis Fortress Europe Mytilene, September 28-October 1, 2017 Evi (Evangelia) “The Coldest Summer” and other “post-truth” Stories 138 Sampanikou Gonca Sahin The dislocated Identities In A Floating World: