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Hotspots of resistance in a bordered reality
Abstract
In this paper, we examine how bordered reality is being imposed and resisted in the context of where we are placed right now, ‘Greece’. Drawing on ethnographic research and discourse analysis, conducted in Lesvos, Samos, and Athens (from March to September 2016), we examine how resistance to a bordered reality took place, as islands in the north Aegean, as well as Greek and European territories, were being remapped according to the logic of the hotspot. We approach this process methodologically from the situated angle of the embodiment of resistance in the concrete experiences of people (including the researchers ourselves), whose narratives reveal the distracted spatial coordinates of the ‘hotspot regime’, which becomes a traveling control device. Rather than approaching the hotspots on the five Greek border islands as geographically fixed entities we introduce the concept of the mobile hotspot to show how the logic of the hotspot suffuses the uneven geographies of a bordered reality. We use the ferry as an illustrative tool with which to critically explore the density, tensions, and conflict-ridden nature of movements within, around, and against the hotspots.
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“In effect, there was an ‘overlapping crisis’ whereby asylum seekers and citizens were situated in a ‘shared precarity continuum’ (Spathopoulou and Carastathis, 2020, p. 1069).”
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“It shows a ‘border that runs through crisis, so that which “crisis” you are discursively constructed to be experiencing depends on which side of the border you are on’ (Spathopoulou and Carastathis, 2020, p. 1070).”
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- Authors
- Spathopoulou, A., & Carastathis, A.
- Affiliations
- Goldsmiths University of London (GB)
- Feminist Autonomous Centre for Research, Greece
- Corresponding author
- Spathopoulou, Aila
- Venue
- Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-03-05
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1067-1083
- ISSN
- 0263-7758 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-3433
- OpenAlex
- W3010426662
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 8.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Environment and Planning D Society and Space (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/S016643/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Gender and Women's Rights
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Keywords
- mobile hotspots, border islands, Lesbos, Samos, Athens, migration control, ferry crossing, uneven geographies, border regimes
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