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"Border Walls and the Politics of Becoming Non-Human" by Miriam Ticktin, CMSP Seminar

September 7th, 2017 - 4:30PM-5:30PM

Location: Morrill Hall

Room: 404

In this talk I am concerned by the ways in which border walls and zones come not simply to defend (for example, certain territories), but also to define  -- that is, to shape or alter categories of natural and human kinds. I will suggest that border walls -- such as those at the border of (predominantly Christian) Spain and (predominantly Muslim) Morocco, as well as between France and the Uni...