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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | Jedes Herbstsemester |
| Dozierende | Charles Heller (charles.heller@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Critical Cartography Charles Heller, Munia Hassoun, Stanislas Michel, Estefania Mompean Botias, Elio Panese Summary This course offers an in-depth exploration of the potential ambivalent uses of maps, mapping tools, and their effects. Maps are not merely passive tools; they actively shape and reflect our perceptions of the world. From the marks left by colonialism to today's sophisticated data visualizations, maps tell compelling stories that are influenced by and influence cultural, political, and socio-economic contexts. Adopting methods developed by the Forensic Oceanography and Border Forensics projects, students will collectively and interactively experiment with critical and radical cartography, spatial, geostatistical analysis and architectural design. Between theory and practice, the communicated methods will be reflected in contesting forms of border violence related to socio-spatial interrelations and documentation, with a particular focus on the context of Switzerland. Content The idyllic landscape of Switzerland is striated by multiple borders and social boundaries, which affect particularly asylum seekers as well as negatively racialised individuals. Using a critical approach, this course will introduce students to theories and methods of human sciences concerning socio-spatiality and cartography. This will enable them to analyze, contest, and transform these forms of borders and the interrelated embodiments of border violence by investigating specific spatial situations and case studies in Switzerland. In particular, we will explore the forms of harm that are inflicted on asylum seekers in an (in)direct way through the Swiss Asylum Dispositif (Panese 2022). The laws, administrative measures and bureaucratic practices that make up the Swiss asylum dispositif and are mobilised with the aim of selecting people and controlling migratory flux transport and translate borders within the State, "into the middle of political space" (Balibar 2004, 109), along with their "potential for violence" (Panese 2022, 18). While the violence perpetrated by the "borders within" Swiss territory may be less spectacular than the large-scale deaths of migrants crossing the external borders of Europe, it nonetheless translates into socio-spatial exclusion, psychological and physical harm. We will further explore the broader theme of how borders and social boundaries materialise in urban environments. The course is divided into two main parts. The first part offers a theoretical and methodological introduction to critical cartography, its use within counter-forensics investigation, while exploring concrete cases of border violence and its methods of data analysis and documentation. We will more specifically examine the use of counter-forensic techniques related to mapping and space to reveal traces of violence and present them in various forums. We will focus specifically on the research conducted within the Forensic Oceanography and Border Forensics projects. The second part of the course will bring students to focus on specific spatial manifestations of borders and social boundaries across the territory of Switzerland, and the often-unrecognizable impacts on the lives of asylum seekers and racialized individuals. Through hands-on workshops, collective discussions, and interactive and practical learning, including a field trip to a "border" case study, students will experiment with new tools and approaches toward spatial analysis and transformation. Keywords Critical Cartography, Borders, Asylum, (Counter-)Forensics, Human Rights, Violence, Territory, Body, Socio-spatial Analysis, Remote Sensing, Traces, Visualization, Mapping, (Im)Mobility, (In)Visibility, Potentialities, Solidarity, Refuge. |
| Lernziele | The course will address a wide range of inquiries such as: ● How can we understand and register the notion of the border in its many different guises? ● How does socio-spatial violence operate, and how are geophysical environments harnessed within it, including the urban space itself? ● How can we navigate complex regimes of (in)visibility, in which various scales of physical and symbolic violence can be both hidden and spectacularized within the system? ● How do the politics of different technologies and methods materialize to reconstruct cases of violence? ● How can socio-spatial interventions articulate notions of violence, (in)visibility, and human-non-human agency? ● Can interconnected spaces become critical spaces that question the very process of the city and the architectural environment? This course will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between cartography, borders, human geography, social relations, and spatial violence, equipping them to challenge and transform these structures through informative and innovative approaches. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students must be able to: • Discuss contemporary debates and approaches in relation to critical cartography, mobility, borders, social boundaries, spatial practice and the critical forensic approach • Identify how the production of space shapes violence and how spatial analysis and mapping in turn can offer a unique edge in analyzing and contesting it • Conduct individual and collaborative spatial interdisciplinary research combining humanities and social science methods with informative and innovative cartography practices and visual representation • Discuss theoretical, political and methodological questions in relation to the different tools and methods used to register traces of violence and in particular Geovisualisation technologies and Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis |
| Literatur | Bibliography Achiume, E. Tendayi (2019) "The Postcolonial Case for Rethinking Borders." Dissent 66.3: pp.27-32. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-postcolonial-case-for-rethinking-borders Âama (2022) "Before We Die. For Alireza, killed by Swiss Migration Policy" Online: https://projet-evasions.org/beforewedie_eng/. Awan, Nishat. 2016. Diasporic Agencies: Mapping the City Otherwise. Design and the Built Environment. Farnham, Surrey Burlington, VT: Ashgate. Balibar, Étienne (2004) "We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship. "Princeton University Press. Casas-Cortes, Maribel & Cobarrubias, Sebastian & Heller, C. & Pezzani, Lorenzo (2017) "Clashing cartographies, migrating maps: Mapping and the politics of mobility at the external borders of E.U.rope. " ACME. 16. 1-33. Cobarrubias, Sebastian (2018) "Maps of Illegality. The International Center of Migration Policy Development and the Carto-Politics of Migration Management at a Distance. " In: Antipode Derrida, Jacques and Steigler, Bernard, (2002), “The Archive Market: Truth, Testimony, Evidence,” Echographies of Television: Filmed Interviews, London: Polity. Fischer, Carolin (2020) "Manifestations and Contestations of Borders and Boundaries in Everyday Understandings of Integration". Migration Letters 4:531–540. Fischer, Carolin, and Manuel Insberg (2022) "The Questionable Safe Haven: Restraints and Concessions in Refugees’ Experiences of Safety and Healing." In 21st Migration Research Conference. Gabrys, Jennifer (2014) "Programming environments: environmentality and citizen sensing in the smart city", Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2014, volume 32. Haraway, Donna. (1988) "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. " Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575-599. Heller, Charles and Pezzani, Lorenzo (2014) "Liquid Traces: Investigating the Deaths of Migrants at the Maritime Frontier of the EU", In Forensic Architecture (ed.), Forensis : The Architecture of Public Truth. Berlin: Sternberg Press. Herscher, Andrew, (2014),“Surveillant Witnessing: Satellite Imagery and the Visual Politics of Human Rights,” Public Culture 26.3. Herscher, Andrew (2017) "Displacements: Architecture and Refugee." Cambridge, MA, USA: Sternberg Press. Johnson, Heather L. (2014) "Borders, asylum and global non-citizenship: the other side of the fence. " Cambridge University Press. Keenan, Thomas (2014) "Getting the Dead to Tell Me What Happened: Justice, Prosopopeia, and Forensic Afterlives", In Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth, ed. Forensic Architecture. Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp.35-55. Knowles, Anne Kelly, Levi Westerveld, and Laura Strom. 2015. “Inductive Visualization: A Humanistic Alternative to GIS.” GeoHumanities 1 (2): 233–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2015.1108831. Kurgan, Laura. (2013) "Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics", New York: Zone Books. Latour, Bruno, and Weibel, Peter, (2005), "Making Things Public"; http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/333 Mason-Deese, Liz, Dalton, Craig, Swanson, Nathan, Stallmann, Tim, Casas-Cortes, Maribel and Cobarrubias, Sebastian (2018) "Counter–Mapping Militant Research". This Is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies, edited by kollektiv orangotango+, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 212-221. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445198-026 Mbembe, Achille (2019) "Bodies as borders". FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH 4 http://europeansouth.postcolonialitalia.it Musiol. 2020. “Cartographic Storytelling, Migration, and Reception Environments.” Environment, Space, Place 12 (2): 1. https://doi.org/10.5749/envispacplac.12.2.0001. Navaro, Yael, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Alice von Bieberstein, and Seda Altuğ (2021) "Reverberations: violence across time and space. " Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Panese, Elio (2022) "Border Violence by Other Means An Inquiry into the Embodied Experience of the Swiss Asylum Dispositif." Parks, Lisa. (2009) "Digging into Google Earth: An analysis of "Crisis in Darfur", Geoforum 40: 535-545. Rancière, Jacques, (2006), “The politics of aesthetics”; http://roundtable.kein.org/node/463 Sheridan, Connor. (2016) "Foucault, Power and the Modern Panopticon". PhD dissertation. Dublin: Trinity College. Online: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/548 Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. (2004) "Can the subaltern speak?" InCain, Peter H., and Harrison, Mark. Imperialism. Critical Concepts in HistoricalStudies. Volume III. London: Routledge: 171-219. Turner, Simon. (2016) "What is a refugee camp? Explorations of the limits and effects of the camp."Journal of Refugee Studies29, no. 2: 139–148. Van Houtum, Henk & Rodrigo Bueno Lacy (2020) "The migration map trap. On the invasion arrows in the cartography of migration", Mobilities, 15:2, 196-219 Weizman, Eyal. (2014) "Forensics: Introduction", In Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth, ed. Forensic Architecture. Berlin: Sternberg Press, pp.9-32. Winter, Yves. (2012) "Violence and Visibility", New Political Science, 34, no. 2: pp.195-202. Websites •https://www.borderforensics.org/ •https://forensic-architecture.org/category/forensic-oceanography |
| Bemerkungen | This course is on a first come first serve basis with Master Students of Critical Urbanisms and Changing Societies being prioritized on timely registration. Maximum capacity 35. Assessor to be confirmed. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Montag | 14.15-16.00 | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Montag 23.09.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 30.09.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 07.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 14.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 21.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 28.10.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 04.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 11.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 18.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 25.11.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 02.12.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 09.12.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Montag 16.12.2024 | 14.15-16.00 Uhr | Rosshofgasse (Schnitz), Seminarraum S 01 |
| Module |
Modul: Praktiken (Master Studiengang: Kulturtechniken) Modul: Ways of Knowing the City (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Urban Studies |