Coöperism 11/13 | Rescue at Sea: Theory and Praxis (March 6, 2024)

Chloe Howe Haralambous, Miguel Duarte, Lorenzo Pezzani, Chiara Towne, and Bernard E. Harcourt discuss Rescue at Sea: Theory and Praxis for Coöperism 11/13 @ColumbiaLawSchool1. Read more here: cooperism.law.columbia.edu/11...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at Columbia University
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It is in this critical space that we can begin to examine properly these civil rescue missions, how they depend on cooperation, and how they constitute an effective alternative to the state. Chloe Howe Haralambous poses three questions for our discussion:
1. How does the practice of rescue at sea open up new imaginaries of solidarity and cooperation?
2. How does solidarity and cooperation at sea emerge out of the historical backdrop of class or anti-colonial struggle?
3. How can we elaborate the place of coöperism in the relationship between the state and civil society as it is, or as we want it to be, negotiated?
To help us address these critical questions, we are honored to be joined by four brilliant theorists and activists: Chloe Howe Haralambous joins us right after her dissertation defense and so will be a doctor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University by the time of our seminar; she specializes in migration and revolution in the 21st century, and her dissertation, "The Rescue Plot: Politics, Policing and Subterfuge in the Mediterranean Migrant Corridor," examines fictional and forensic narratives of the sea passage between Libya and Italy, with a particular focus on the radical traditions of solidarity at sea. Chloe co-founded the Mosaik Support Center for Refugees and Locals on the island of Lesvos, Greece, and worked as Advocacy Officer, Tactical Coordinator and Guest Coordinator on board the ships and aircraft of Sea-Watch, an activist organization that rescues border-crossers in the Mediterranean Sea. Miguel Duarte is a theoretical physicist and a sea rescuer in the Central Mediterranean, active in the migrants’ rights movement since 2016. He is part of HuBB - Humans Before Borders, a platform for the protection of migrants’ rights. Lorenzo Pezzani is an architect and professor in the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna, where he leads LIMINAL, a laboratory investigating intersectional (im-)mobilities through forensic imagination. He is the co-founder of Forensic Oceanography and Border Forensics, which bring new interdisciplinary perspectives on pressing issues such as migration, border violence and the environmental crisis. Chiara Towne is a filmmaker and screenwriter based in Los Angeles who has been documenting migration in the Mediterranean since 2017, most recently with her short film Channel 16.
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