Responsibility and Reparation for Displacement without Altered Movement

On 6-7 January 2025, CCPT and the Leeds Migration Research Network are hosting an interdisciplinary workshop Responsibility and Reparation for Displacement without Altered Movement. The workshop sessions will examine how normative theoretical approaches to displacement can help to illuminate empirical studies of displacement without altered movement worldwide, and vice versa.

Places are limited, so please contact J.Souter@leeds.ac.uk if you are interested in attending. The programme is attached below.

 

Programme

Monday, 6 January

10 – 10.30: Welcome and coffee

10.30 – 10.45: Introductions

10.45 – 11.30: James Souter (Leeds, POLIS), ‘When Home Isn’t Home Anymore: Theorising
Responsibility and Reparation for Displacement without Altered Movement’

Displacement in Political Theory

Suggested questions for presenters: How do you conceptualise displacement in your work? To
what extent does the notion of ‘displacement without altered movement’ fit with your existing
work and/or offer an opportunity to develop it? How might further engagement with empirical
research and the lived experiences of the displaced affect or develop your work?

11.30 – 12.45:

Rebecca Buxton (Bristol, Department of Philosophy), TBC
Jamie Draper (Utrecht, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies), Displacement and
Stability

12.45 – 1.30: Lunch

1.30 – 2.45:
Clara Sandelind (Manchester, Department of Politics), Political Solidarity as a Feasibility
Principle
Laura Santi Amantini (Piemonte Orientale, Humanities Department), From the Harms of Border Restrictions to the Harms of Displacement

2.45 – 3: Break

Displacement without Altered Movement in Diverse Contexts

Suggested questions for presenters: How does your research lead you to conceptualise
displacement, whether with and/or without movement? In what ways have lived experiences of your research participants contributed to your understanding of displacement? To what extent do you consider what justice and reparation requires in the cases of displacement that you study, and how could this kind of focus develop your work?

3 – 3.45: Asa Roast (Leeds, School of Geography), Displacement and Urbanisation in China

3.45 – 4.30: Emma Rimpiläinen (Uppsala, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies), Can
Mobility Emplace? War and Displacement from the Donbas since 2014

4.30 – 5.15: Viktoria Spaiser (Leeds, POLIS), Escalating Ecological Destabilisation and
Environmental Anomie as Displacement without Migration

Drinks/rest

7pm, dinner: Sarto, Munro House, Duke St, Leeds, LS9 8AG

 

Tuesday, 7th January

Studying Displacement without Altered Movement: Combining Theoretical and Empirical Approaches

Suggested questions for presenters: In what ways have you combined theoretical and empirical
approaches in your research, and with what kinds of result? To what extent could these
approaches and methodologies be fruitfully applied to the study of displacement without
altered movement in diverse contexts?

10 – 10.45: Amanda Russell Beattie (Aston, Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement),
Narrating a Deportation Hearing

11 – 11.45: Gemma Bird (Liverpool, Politics) [online], Reflections on Patchwork Ethnography
and Activist Scholarship: The Role of Methods in Witnessing and Participating in Worldmaking at the Margins of the EU

11.45 – 12.30: Joe Hoover (Queen Mary, Politics), The Experience of Displacement: Pragmatic
Reflections on the Injustice of Gentrification-Induced Displacement

12.30 – 1.15: Lunch

1.15 – 2.45: Discussion of Next Steps.

End of workshop.