Mer
22
Apr
Seminari e Convegni
Beyond sanctuary: the humanism of a world in motion
The meeting on 22 April 2026, at 4:00 pm, is part of the Beyond Inhabitation Lab seminar series, Spring 2026.
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study on the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione, professor in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), and AbdouMaliq Simone.
Abstract
Beyond Sanctuary is an open access anthology edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky, with Leisy J. Abrego, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and Maite Zubiaurre, which critically interrogates the concept of sanctuary and its role within Western humanism. Its authors accompany migrant justice struggles and draw on the Black Radical Tradition, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, and critical refugee studies.
The authors initiated this volume during the first Trump presidency in order to understand and challenge explicit attacks on sanctuary jurisdictions, many of them located in liberal U.S. cities. With the return of Trumpism, such cities—particularly Los Angeles—are now under militarized occupation and a lawless regime, as the white nationalist project seeks to “Make America White Again.” Beyond Sanctuary brings together scholars and artists to address the question of sanctuary not as a promise, but as a problem. Thinking across the United States and Europe, the volume examines how Western liberal democracies treat racial others through systems of deadly borders and elusive asylum. Rather than demanding the juridical protections of sanctuary or the comfort of hospitality, the work foregrounds the ideas and practices of those who are rendered fugitives and cast out into the world. These are understood as migrant movements, in the double sense of movement as both motion and rebellion.
Biography
Ananya Roy is professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and holds the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Veronika Zablotsky is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin.
To participate, please click here.
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab provides an infrastructure to facilitate a process of collective study on the shifting terrain and politics of inhabitation globally, and is directed by Michele Lancione, professor in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), and AbdouMaliq Simone.
Abstract
Beyond Sanctuary is an open access anthology edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky, with Leisy J. Abrego, Gaye Theresa Johnson, and Maite Zubiaurre, which critically interrogates the concept of sanctuary and its role within Western humanism. Its authors accompany migrant justice struggles and draw on the Black Radical Tradition, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, and critical refugee studies.
The authors initiated this volume during the first Trump presidency in order to understand and challenge explicit attacks on sanctuary jurisdictions, many of them located in liberal U.S. cities. With the return of Trumpism, such cities—particularly Los Angeles—are now under militarized occupation and a lawless regime, as the white nationalist project seeks to “Make America White Again.” Beyond Sanctuary brings together scholars and artists to address the question of sanctuary not as a promise, but as a problem. Thinking across the United States and Europe, the volume examines how Western liberal democracies treat racial others through systems of deadly borders and elusive asylum. Rather than demanding the juridical protections of sanctuary or the comfort of hospitality, the work foregrounds the ideas and practices of those who are rendered fugitives and cast out into the world. These are understood as migrant movements, in the double sense of movement as both motion and rebellion.
Biography
Ananya Roy is professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and holds the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Veronika Zablotsky is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin.
To participate, please click here.