Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
The Noborder movement: interpersonal struggle with political ideals
Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of migration, but who share decolonial, anti-capitalist ideals that criticize the nation-state. Noborder activists embrace prefigurative strategies, which means enacting political ideals in their everyday life. This is why this article asks: How do noborder activists try to meet their political ideals in their everyday practices, and what effects do these intentions entail? Noborder practices take place at the intersection of self-organization as a reference to migrants' legal status or identity, on the one hand, and self-organization as anti-hierarchical forms of anarchist-autonomous organization, on the other. On the basis of empirical findings of a multi-sited ethnography in Germany and Greece, this article conceptualizes that noborder creates a unique space for activists to meet in which people try to work productively through conflicts they see as being produced by a global system of inequalities. This demanding endeavor involves social pressure to self-reflect and to transform interpersonal relationships. Broader society could learn from such experiences to build more inclusive, heterogeneous communities.
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Englisch
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 49-57
- ISSN
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2183-2803
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Social Inclusion, 5(3)
- Thema
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Politikwissenschaft
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Protestbewegung
Netzwerk
Kritik
Nationalstaat
Einstellung
Identität
Selbstorganisation
soziale Beziehungen
politisches Asyl
soziale Bewegung
Flüchtling
Alltag
Politik
Staatsgrenze
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gauditz, Leslie
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wann)
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2017
- DOI
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Gauditz, Leslie
Entstanden
- 2017