Seeing like a smuggler

Description

In this seminar, Shahram Khosravi from Stockholm University gave a presentation, followed by a discussion with Naja Bjørnsson from Lund University and questions from participants. William Kutz moderated the seminar.

Presentation
In this talk, Shahram Khosravi discussed how smuggling has emerged as a significant response to the crises and contradictions inherent in the border regime. The term 'smuggler' often conjures a simplified, negative image propagated by the media and authorities. Such state-centric perspectives conceal the myriad social, political, and economic relations associated with smuggling. However, if we shift our focus to examining borders from below, the nature of smuggling takes on a different light. In contrast to the seeing-from-above approach which is based on externalizing irregularities such as smuggling as criminal act, from below identifies the contradictions and inconsistencies within the nation-state system.

About the series
This was the eighth seminar of the series Dwelling, elsewhere: Comparative-methodological perspectives on borderland inhabitation, arranged and moderated by William Kutz and the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, funded by CEMES.

Period	2024 Jan 17
Event type	Seminar
Degree of Recognition	International