Designing the undesirable: politics and imagination
A few years ago, after seven years of investigations in refugee camps mainly in Africa, I could not imagine a better way to give a generic meaning and horizon to these ethnographic situations than by designing the dystopya of a world organization, fictitious certainly but nevertheless only composed...
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Les Cahiers d’Outre-Mer
2023
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| Résumé: | A few years ago, after seven years of investigations in refugee camps mainly in Africa, I could not imagine a better way to give a generic meaning and horizon to these ethnographic situations than by designing the dystopya of a world organization, fictitious certainly but nevertheless only composed of real facts. This fiction was made of an official and visible world, and another one remaining invisible, although its existence would not be totally ignored. Behind very high walls, barriers an... |
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