(Re)construction | Capitalist Globalization and Border Transitions (S. Mezzadra & M. Tchangari)
Channel: medico international
Date: 2021-04-01

The globalization of the world, the provincialization of Europe and the decision Europe has to take

Discussants:
Sandro Mezzadra (Political theorist, Bologna)
Moussa Tchangari (Human Rights Defender, Alternative Espaces Citoyens, Niamey)

Facilitator: Massimo Perinelli (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin)

Sandro Mezzadra teaches theory of politics at the University of Bologna and is Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney. He is an active participant in the 'post-operaist' debate and one of the founders of the Euronomade project (www.euronomade.info). Over the past decade he has worked extensively on migration, postcolonial critique and global capitalism. Together with Brett Neilson, he published the book Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013). His most recent publication is "The Politics of Operations. Excavating Contemporary Capitalism" (2019). As an activist, he participates with the Mediterranea Saving Humans campaign.

Moussa Tchangari is secretary general of the Alternative Espaces Citoyens association, one of the most important civil society organizations in Niger. In 1991, Moussa Tchangari was one of the founders of the Association Nigérienne des Droits de l'Homme (ANDDH). He is also active as a journalist. In recent years, the long-time medico partner has been campaigning for the rights of migrants who pass through Niger as a transit country in the direction of Europe. Human rights activists in Niger are persecuted by the government. Last March, Tchangari and five other activists were arrested after a government-critical demonstration and spent several weeks in prison.

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The (Re)Construction of the World. Aid. Solidarity. Politics.

A conference not only on the miserable state of the world, but also and above all on the possibilities of its reconstruction into a place that will finally be worth inhabiting. In lectures and forums, the aim is to determine the relationship between aid, solidarity and politics from the promise we made to ourselves in the Declaration of Human Rights: The promise of a global and social order in which the rights granted to us all would be fully realized.

The online conference (February 12th until February 14th, 2021) was organized by medico international e. V. in cooperation with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Sozialforschung Frankfurt, International Institute of Political Murder and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

www.medico.de/en/reconstruction