TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobile Commons in the Pre-Pandemic, Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era
T2 - Drawing from Mobility Experiences in Post-Migrant Times
AU - Trimikliniotis, Nicos
AU - Parsanoglou, Dimitris
AU - Tsianos, Vassilis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - This paper examines the effect of the pandemic in the generation of simultaneous global, regional, and local processes as they materialize in realities and the potential for post-pandemic mobile commons. The paper theorizes the matter drawing on studies in the triangle of Cyprus-Greece-Turkey i.e., the south-eastern border of Europe/EU. Mobile ommons is theorized in the current context by locating these processes in the pandemic and post-pandemic era, even though the first empirical work was done during the pre- -pandemic period. The pandemic brought about an abrupt interruption of what is at the core of global capitalism: mobility. During this period, regimes of exception, derogation and suspension of rights were introduced across all fields of the civic, social, and political life almost all over the world. The concept of mobile commons aims to capture dynamic processes, as an ensemble or matrix of care of the society on the move, generating reciprocity on the move and a sustainability of the geography of the crossings. Digitality is part and parcel of the current migratory processes. Digitality is a space where media technologies of control coexist with the possibilities of alternative media use. To every form of control technology there is a corresponding form of resistance to it. The paper examines how mobile commons resist digital registration and the process that generate a pan-European digital border infrastructure which aims to immobilize people. It illustrates how encounters between groups produce social dialectics within institutions; struggles, onflicts, disagreements, and negotiations occur, but so do new socialities and solidarities in a world in a constant state of being remade.
AB - This paper examines the effect of the pandemic in the generation of simultaneous global, regional, and local processes as they materialize in realities and the potential for post-pandemic mobile commons. The paper theorizes the matter drawing on studies in the triangle of Cyprus-Greece-Turkey i.e., the south-eastern border of Europe/EU. Mobile ommons is theorized in the current context by locating these processes in the pandemic and post-pandemic era, even though the first empirical work was done during the pre- -pandemic period. The pandemic brought about an abrupt interruption of what is at the core of global capitalism: mobility. During this period, regimes of exception, derogation and suspension of rights were introduced across all fields of the civic, social, and political life almost all over the world. The concept of mobile commons aims to capture dynamic processes, as an ensemble or matrix of care of the society on the move, generating reciprocity on the move and a sustainability of the geography of the crossings. Digitality is part and parcel of the current migratory processes. Digitality is a space where media technologies of control coexist with the possibilities of alternative media use. To every form of control technology there is a corresponding form of resistance to it. The paper examines how mobile commons resist digital registration and the process that generate a pan-European digital border infrastructure which aims to immobilize people. It illustrates how encounters between groups produce social dialectics within institutions; struggles, onflicts, disagreements, and negotiations occur, but so do new socialities and solidarities in a world in a constant state of being remade.
KW - digital border
KW - digitality
KW - dissensus
KW - ensemble or matrix of care
KW - mobile commons
KW - mobility
KW - pandemic and post-pandemic era
KW - polarisation
KW - socialities
KW - society on the move
KW - solidarity
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175179423&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.19195/prt.2022.4.3
DO - 10.19195/prt.2022.4.3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85175179423
SN - 2081-8130
VL - 46
SP - 53
EP - 96
JO - Praktyka Teoretyczna
JF - Praktyka Teoretyczna
IS - 4
ER -