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Rowman & Littlefield International Spaces of Governmentality Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings 2014 Edition by Martina Tazzioli
Much work has been done on the causes and characteristics of the Arab Spring, but relatively little research has examined the political and spatial consequences that have developed following the uprisings.This book engages with the ways in which spaces in Southern Europe and Northern Africa have been negotiated and transformed by migrants in the wake of the uprisings, showing that their struggles are a continuation of their political movement. Drawing on an innovative countermapping approach, based on radical cartography, Martina Tazzioli illustrates the spatial upheavals caused by migration in the Mediterranean and the transformations created by migration controls applied by European nations. With critical insight on the application of Foucault's concept of governmentality to migration studies, exploration of a reconfigured theory of autonomy of migration and discussion of the politics of invisibility that underpins migration, this book sheds new light on the enduring struggles that follow the Arab Spring. Table of contents :- Introduction / 1. Governmentality and Migration Studies / 2. Autonomy of Migration and Migrant Struggles / 3. Arab Revolutions and the European Space: Three Analytic Snapshots / 4. Spatial Economy after the Revolution / 5. Politics of Migration Controls and the Politics of Invisibility / 6. Countermapping and Migration Governmentality Mechanisms / Conclusions