Underworlds - Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering

Hope as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering Moving beyond modernist modes of seeing and ordering the world – ways of governing often entangled with sentimental tropes of liberal hope – this episode reflects on hope as a set of sensibilities and practices of living ‘after the end of the world’. Hope is seen, in this sense, as a specific mode for dis/ordering the world and our place within it....

Waste as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering Rather than concentrating only on how waste is defined or regulated in (international) law, this episode foregrounds the material patterns of dis/ordering that thinking through waste reveals and generates. This entails an attentiveness to the ethical positions, material practices, and shifting legal geographies that help us navigate the world from...

Frontiers as Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering This episode foregrounds how frontier spaces are legally, materially, and discursively produced, which subjectivities it fosters, and which modes of capitalist production it enables and forecloses. This entails an attentiveness to the forms of refusal and resistance that the violence and extractivism of frontier spaces invite. What are the li...

The Commons as Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering Rather than focusing strictly on how the commons are formally (mis)recognised or regulated in (international) law, this episode foregrounds the diverging modes of dis/ordering that practices of commoning can produce. This entails an attentiveness to the new legal spaces that commoning engenders, as well as the forms of political subjectivit...

Debt as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering Rather than focusing only on how (sovereign) debt is formally recognised and regulated in international law, this episode foregrounds the material structures of global ordering and disordering that debt generates. This entails an attentiveness to the histories of violence that are thereby enacted or amplified, as well as a focus on practices of resi...

Breath as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering Rather than concentrating only on how the right to breathe is formally recognised (or not) in international law, this event foregrounds the patterns of dis/ordering that are embedded in infrastructures of toxicity, and the unevenly allocated affordances of breath and breathing these engender. This entails an attentiveness to forms of political res...

Oil / Coal as Sites and Struggles of Global Dis/Ordering Rather than concentrating only on how the commodities of oil and coal are regulated as objects of international law, this episode foregrounds patterns and imaginaries of global dis/ordering that these materials generate. It thereby traces the multiple entanglements between fossil fuels and the infrastructural and institutional conduits of gl...

Oceans as Site and Struggle of Global Dis/Ordering Rather than concentrating only on how oceans are formally framed or regulated as objects of international legal ordering, this episode foregrounds the patterns and imaginaries of global dis/ordering that thinking through the ocean reveal. Which material historical conditions have shaped the current legal constitution of oceanic space? Which new le...