AISSR Lecture by Willem Schinkel & Rogier van Reekum
When scholar, writer, editor, and civil rights pioneer William Edward Burghardt Du Bois first visited the Netherlands in August 1892 on his way to his studies in Germany, he noted in his travel diary that it was "an extremely well-ordered mud-puddle." No doubt many self-declared Dutch would take that as a compliment, but perhaps it was saying a bit too much.
Certainly today, the order whose inflation is called 'the Netherlands' is tenuous, and cannot exist nor be understood without taking into account both the fascist horizon of Western politics, and 'migration' as a related mode in which race is performed in contemporary Europe.
Thus, in this AISSR lecture Willem Schinkel & Rogier van Reekum outlined why they deem it pertinent to conceive of contemporary European fascism as a dynamic internal to liberal democracy.
And why they believe 'migration' is the operating ground upon which both liberal democracy and fascism achieve new and tenuous, but ever more entangled articulations.
After their lecture, Willem en Rogier discussed their ideas with Sarah Bracke (Sociology) and Darshan Vigneswaran (Political Science).
Willem Schinkel is professor of social theory at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work is currently focused on the genealogy of migration and the genealogy of property.
Rogier van Reekum is associate professor in sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His work is concerned with the politics of borders, migration, knowledge controversies and fascism.
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