[Bilimsel Haber] WORKSHOP- Comparative Occupations: Chechnya, Iraq, Palestine, Feb. 25-26, JFK School of Government

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: "Ctr. for Middle Eastern Studies" <mideast@fas.harvard.edu>



WORKSHOP- Comparative Occupations: Chechnya, Iraq, Palestine, Feb. 25-26

Announcing a Workshop on "Comparative Occupations: Chechnya, Iraq, Palestine
Governing Zones of Emergency"

February 25-26, 2006 at the Kennedy School

Co-sponsored by:

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
The Governance Initiative in the Middle East at the Belfer Center for
Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University
Human Rights at Harvard

The aim of this workshop is to examine different situations of colonial,
semi-colonial or post-colonial domination in under/over globalized 
conflicts in
which one segment of the population, or sometimes the population as a 
whole, is
devoid of politic rights and the effective protection of citizenship, and is
dominated (in its own eyes at least) by a foreign ruling apparatus in 
conditions
of chronic disaster verging sometimes on human catastrophe. The point is 
also
not to compare the 'solutions' proposed or imposed by various international
agents but to include an investigation of the interventions of these 
agents as
one aspect of the phenomena to be studied.

Other phenomena to be examined to include:

  - new modes and forms of governing power in situations in which the
    suspension of the law has become the rule and where the production of
    disastrous living conditions is not simply an incidental 
side-effects of a
    bloody conflict but central to the administration of the conflict by the
    governing power.
  - the emergence of 'zones of emergency', some of which may be formally
    under occupation and others, not where new forms of power are imposed on
    non-citizens
  - the large-scale mobilization of the occupiers' resources to obtain its
    own security

For more information and to REGISTER for this workshop, please visit the
workshop website at:

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/conference/comparative_occupations_overv
iew.htm



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