Keynote: Holes in the map. The affective spatial politics of the ghetto

Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typerForedrag og mundtlige bidrag

Mons Bissenbakker - Andet

Michael Nebeling Petersen - Keynote

In 2018, the Danish government introduced the so-called “Ghetto Law” designated to eradicate ghetto areas through a radical process of gentrification, including the eviction of tenants and the molishing of buildings containing social housing. “The ghetto” is closely aligned to formations of class and ethnicity as the official governmental definition conceptualizes “a ghetto” as an area of nonprofit social housing in which “the proportion of immigrants and descendants from non-western countries exceeds 50 percent” and in which, “compared with the country as a whole, residents in the designated areas will generally have a significantly lower educational level, a weaker connection to the labour market and the educational system, a lower income, or have committed more criminal offenses” (Ministry of Foreigners and Integration 2018 [L231], 23). In this talk, we use the official Danish ghetto politics as an example to analyse the Ghetto Law as a specific form of affective bio-politics (Foucault). Drawing on the affect theoretical approaches of Sara Ahmed, Jasbir Puar, Lauren Berlant and others, we examine how the Ghetto Law functions as a way of managing cities as affective spaces and attachment to the nation as emotional orientation. However, we also point to the counter strategies of the unruly tenants function as a way of countering affective bio politics through radical passivity.
20 jan. 2021

Begivenhed (Konference)

TitelAesthetic Relations
Dato20/01/202122/01/2021
Hjemmeside
AfholdelsesstedKøbenhavns Universitet
Land/OmrådeDanmark
Grad af anerkendelseInternational begivenhed

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