Based on a reconstruction of the historical itinerary of the idea of Europe, devoting particular attention to the articulation of heterogeneous constitutive elements of this idea (fantasmatic narration, mythical name, geographical space, and religious and/or political projects of integration), the lecture exposes some of the constitutive moments that have led to the present fracturing of the so-called “European” universalist model of the constitution of common and collective identities, a model based on the dialectics of the universal and exception.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 42704941In this discussion dedicated to the role of media reporting in the framing of the refugee crisis, Tadej Troha focused on the discursive strategies of what he termed “objective xenophobia”. In his contribution, he examined some of the key discursive substitutions that – precisely by appearing excessively neutral – served as a means of disavowing one’s own xenophobic position. The authorities spoke of “technical obstacles” when erecting a razor-wire fence, they spoke of “limited integration capacities” instead of admitting their unwillingness to offer help, and they spoke of “changed circumstances” in order to suspend international legal obligations.
B.06 Other
COBISS.SI-ID: 35232605In the lecture we inquired into the state of Occidental Europe, which has established a proper agenda for democracy based on human rights protection. Refugees are advancing en masse toward the “former” Western Europe due to various proxy and real wars in their countries of origin, but they are halted at the border of the EU. In recent decades, Europe has radically changed its humanitarian biopolitics into a necropolitical total abandonment of and ban on refugees. This perverse shift allows for a further systematic dehumanization and complete abandonment of all those hundreds of thousands of humans that are trying to enter the European Union as refugees.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 42435885