CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS: THE BALKAN CORRIDOR, 10 YEARS LATER

ČASOPIS ZA KRITIKO ZNANOSTI, DOMIŠLJIJO IN NOVO ANTROPOLOGIJO (ČKZ)
Journal for the Critique of Science, Imagination, and New Anthropology
CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS: THE BALKAN CORRIDOR, 10 YEARS LATER
Ljubljana, 18. 2. 2025
Migration has been a constant part of history, yet since the 20th century onwards, it has been a key symptom of the capitalist political-economic regime. As such, it works as a boomerang, stemming from the colonial practices of Western hegemony and its current neocolonialist power structure, based on the division between centre and periphery.
Its exploitation of cheap migrant labour is an essential return effect for the functioning of late capitalism. It is also a boomerang in the sense that migration seems to function like an abject of the contemporary political regime which tries to suppress the investment of power relations into the field of migration, the effects of which - precisely because of this suppression - cannot keep coming back and influence the political sphere; it is a part of the whole of hegemonic power relations yet that part which also enables it in its current concrete ties and as much represents the whole itself.
Let's look at the changes within the past 10 years since the closure of the Balkan corridor in 2016. We can observe a reconfiguration of the “society that defends”, establishing new borders, re-using violent and manifold strategies of the European border regime, and the EU’s reshaping into an explicit security apparatus.
Migration is also at the centre of new political alliances and realignments, while migrants are used as a geopolitical tool. As we have seen in the case of Turkiya and Beloruse, one may understand it as a new form of biological weapon. Because these effects are multiple and also depend on different localities; because the nature of borders is hard, yet nevertheless plastic; but most of all because the borders’ effects are known only through the struggle and there are struggles for the autonomy of migration still going on, this issue of ČKZ co-edited with Infokolpa will be focusing on the changes (challenges, transformations) within the last 10 years since the opening and most of all closure of the Balkan corridor. What has changed since then? Where are we positioned concerning migration struggles? What are some changes in the experience of the struggles for the autonomy of migration? What do these past 10 years signify for migration today compared to before? What is the global state of migration? As the content of contributing papers is quite open so is the form, so we welcome scientific articles, poetry, essays, maps, political and geopolitical analysis, etc.
This issue aims to gather different experiences and elaborations in one place to understand better the overall picture of changing times and border regimes, to condense different aspects and through the momentum of condensation try to push the struggles forward, or at least to create a signpost of where we are - so we can perhaps see easier to where we should go. A signpost that would give more chances to intervene in catching that boomerang, but also create an archive, which would serve as a message in a bottle for future struggles.
- ČKZ accepts contributions until 1 June 2025.
- We are accepting contributions in Slovene and English.
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Ljubljana, 18. 2. 2025
ČASOPIS ZA KRITIKO ZNANOSTI, DOMIŠLJIJO IN NOVO ANTROPOLOGIJO (ČKZ)
POZIV K ODDAJI PRISPEVKOV:
BALKANSKI KORIDOR, 10 LET POZNEJE
Migracije so stalen del zgodovine, vendar so od 20. stoletja naprej ključni simptom kapitalističnega politično-gospodarskega režima. Kot take delujejo kot bumerang, ki izhaja iz kolonialnih praks zahodne hegemonije in njenih sedanjih neokolonialističnih struktur moči, ki temeljijo na delitvi na center in periferijo. Izkoriščanje poceni migrantske delovne sile je tako bistven povratni učinek značilen za delovanje poznega kapitalizma. Je tudi bumerang v smislu, da migracije delujejo kot abjekt sodobnega političnega režima, ki poskuša zatreti vlaganje razmerij moči v polje migracij, katerih učinki se - prav zaradi tega zatiranja - ne morejo več vračati in vplivati na politično sfero; so del celote hegemonskih razmerij moči, vendar tisti del, ki jo omogoča tudi v njenih sedanjih konkretnih vezeh in v enaki meri predstavlja samo celoto. Oglejmo si spremembe v zadnjih desetih letih od zaprtja balkanskega koridorja leta 2016. Opazimo lahko preoblikovanje „družbe, ki brani“, vzpostavitev novih meja, ponovno uporabo nasilnih in raznovrstnih strategij evropskega mejnega režima ter preoblikovanje EU v eksplicitni varnostni aparat. Migracije so tudi v središču novih političnih zavezništev in prerazporeditev, migranti pa se uporabljajo kot geopolitično orodje. Kot smo videli na primeru Turčije in Belorusije, ga je lahko mogoče razumeti tudi kot novo obliko biološkega orožja.
Ker so ti učinki mnogoteri in odvisni tudi od različnih lokalitet; ker je narava meja trda, a vendarle plastična; predvsem pa, ker so učinki meja znani le skozi boj in ker še vedno potekajo boji za avtonomijo migracij, se bomo v tej številki ČKZ, ki jo bomo izdali skupaj z Infokolpo, osredotočili na spremembe v zadnjih 10 letih od odprtja in predvsem zaprtja Balkanskega koridorja. Kaj se je od takrat spremenilo? Kje se nahajamo v razmerju do z migracijskih bojev? Katere so nekatere spremembe v izkušnjah bojev za avtonomijo migracij? Kaj pomeni teh zadnjih deset let za migracije danes v primerjavi s preteklostjo? Kakšno je globalno stanje migracij? Ker je vsebina prispevkov precej odprta, je odprta tudi oblika, zato so dobrodošli znanstveni članki, poezija, eseji, zemljevidi, politične in geopolitične analize itd.
Namen te številke je zbrati različne izkušnje in elaborate na enem mestu, da bi bolje razumeli celotno sliko spreminjajočih se časov in mejnih režimov, strnili različne vidike in s pomočjo dinamike zgoščevanja poskušali premakniti boj naprej ali vsaj ustvariti kažipot, kje smo, da bi morda lažje videli, kam moramo iti. Kažipot, ki bi omogočil več možnosti za posredovanje pri lovljenju tega bumeranga, hkrati pa ustvaril arhiv, ki bi služil kot sporočilo v steklenici za prihodnje boje.
ČKZ sprejema prispevke do 1. junija 2025. Prispevke sprejemamo v slovenskem in angleškem jeziku.
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