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SUMMARY:Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression - Dr
  Saskia Witteborn\, The Chinese University of Hong King
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CONTACT:Dr Danai Avgeri
DESCRIPTION:Communication and media practices are a useful starting point 
 for exploring the production of social realities\, including the constitut
 ion of communities\, displacement\, and spaces in which hierarchies of mea
 nings can be challenged. Specifically\, the talk\, which is based on a rec
 ently published monograph (Stanford University Press\, 2023)\, introduces 
 the audience to the highly mediatized group of the Uyghurs and their human
  rights advocacy practices. The talk addresses embodied and digital eye-wi
 tnessing and the ways those practices increase international awareness abo
 ut the group’s struggle for basic rights. The discussion shows how the a
 ffordances of digital technologies enable a testimonial infrastructure wit
 h connective logics\, referring to mediated visibility\, inter-platform ci
 rculation of witness accounts\, and intertextual hashtag chains. While emb
 odied testimonios use the language of affect\, digital testimonios shift t
 oward the language of quantification and verification. The talk further il
 lustrates how transgressive speech can be identified through its strategic
  control\, referring to the discursive and technological configuration of 
 communicative acts by relevant stakeholders\, including activists\, donor 
 organizations\, the diasporic leadership as well as governments. Moreover\
 , the discussion highlights the implications of a shift from embodied to d
 atafied transgression and how transgressive speech aligns with a politiciz
 ed humanism by Western governments and supranational organizations. Overal
 l\, the longitudinal\, multi-sited research in China\, the United States\,
  and Germany encourages conversations about fieldwork in challenging setti
 ngs\, the conditions that enable and restrict transgressive speech\, and h
 ow transgression creates spaces for intervention in contexts of displaceme
 nt. The talk will be followed by a commentary by Andrew Fallone (Institute
  of Criminology\, University of Cambridge) and Q&A with the author.\n\nSas
 kia Witteborn is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Commu
 nication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She specializes in
  critical technology studies and migration\, with a focus on understanding
  the lived experiences of transnational migrants. She has worked with migr
 ants in the United States\, Europe\, and East Asia. She researches the geo
 politics of identity\, the datafication of migration\, and the link betwee
 n migration\, mobilities\, and immersive realities. She was a visiting sch
 olar at Free University of Berlin\, at the Berlin Institute for Migration 
 and Integration Research at Humboldt University\, and Télécom Paris. Cur
 rently\, she is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics
  and Political Science. Her research has appeared in leading journals and 
 in edited collections. She is author of Unruly Speech: Displacement and th
 e Politics of Transgression (Stanford University Press\, 2023)\, co-editor
  of The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration (Sage\, 2020)\, and co-author
  of Together: Communicating Interpersonally. A Social Construction Approac
 h (Oxford University Press\, 6th ed.\, 2005). \n\nAndrew Fallone is a PhD 
 researcher at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology\, provi
 ding a critical and feminist lens on the interactions between social capit
 al\, clandestine migration\, and the impact of migration management polici
 es. Andrew has previously worked with the United Nations\, the General Del
 egation of Palestine to the United States\, and the Embassy of the Princip
 ality of Liechtenstein\, among other organizations\, and has published res
 earch on transnational migration with the International Centre for Migrati
 on Policy Development and the Centre for European Policy Studies.\n\n \n\n
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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