Dr Umut Ozguc1
1Macquarie University, Australia
Biography:
Dr. Umut Ozguc is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations. She is a critical International Relations (IR) scholar working on border politics, critical security studies, settler colonialism, and International Relations theory. Her work cuts across several disciplines mainly IR, political geography, and international political sociology. Her research has been published in many journals including Political Geography, International Political Sociology, Geopolitics and Security Dialogue. She is the co-founder and co-convenor of Australian Critical Border Studies Network, co-chair of Women's Caucus Australian Political Studies Association.
Abstract:
Contemporary borders are no longer in the domain of sovereign states. Rather, they are now performed by the entanglement of multiple actors including NGOs, industry-military complex, entrepreneurs, regional organisations and so forth. In this panel, we seek to question the shifting boundaries of contemporary borders by collectively asking they are made, remade or contested at different scales and by different actors. We explore how borders play out on local places. Ultimately, papers explore different ways of conceptualising the borders of the 21st century. Our aim is to introduce new critical methodologies in our thinking of borders. We will not offer a unified methodological approach but call for a ‘messy thinking’ in International Relations (IR).
Discussant: Dr. Marilu Melo Zurita, University of New South Wales.
Presenters:
1. Dr. Luke Glanville, Australian National University. Compassionate Domination: How Powerful Actors, Past and Present, Justify Controlling the Mobility of Vulnerable Others. (luke.glanville@anu.edu.au)
2. Dr. Umut Ozguc, Macquarie University.
Simulated Refugee Camps: Boundaries of Care and Empathy.
3. Dr. Ari Jerrems, University of Western Australia.
Makeshift border infrastructure at Port Hedland, Western Australia (ari.jerrems@uwa.edu.au)
4. Dr. Samid Suliman, Griffith University.
Towards a political geography of slow violence in the Woomera Prohibited Area (s.suliman@griffith.edu.au)