Dr Azmeary Ferdoush

Interested in a #PhD around the issues of #borders, #migration, #state, and #sovereignty? I am recruiting a fully funded PhD student to be based in @lborogeog.bsky.social at the Midlands campus of @lborouniversity.bsky.social for my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project #GeoEx. Details below

Extremely honored and happy to have it. Looking forward to starting the project! More to follow …

Researchers to look at why some human lives are valued as more important than others Researchers at Loughborough University are preparing to launch a new project which aims to answer the question - why and how are some human lives regarded as expendable, while others are deemed exempl...

Many congratulations to @ferdoush.bsky.social on securing a @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Leadership Award! 🎉

The project will seek to establish why and how some human lives are regarded as expendable while others are treated with exemplary care ⬇️

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Thanks, of course, to @leverhulme.ac.uk and to colleagues within and beyond @lborogeog.bsky.social and @lborouniversity.bsky.social, especially @sarah-mills.bsky.social , @sophiecranston.bsky.social, @drjwharrison.bsky.social, @reecejones.bsky.social and Natalie Koch for their support.

The project will allow me to build my own team of postdoctoral and doctoral researchers and is valued at up to £1 million. More to follow soon.

It is a four-year project comparing Bangladesh, Finland, and the UK as cases and asks one big question: why and how are some human lives regarded as expendable, while others are not only treated as worth protecting but also of exemplary treatment?

What a way to finish off the year! I am delighted and privileged to share that I have accepted a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for my project titled “Geographies of Example: Finding the example within the exception and beyond” (GeoEx).

This is part of a #SpecialIssue consisting six other papers offering a comparative discussion of #eight countries in #Europe
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Unpacking the temporary protection of displaced people from Ukraine within the tightening migration governance in Sweden and Finland This article focuses on the Swedish and Finnish implementation of the European Union’s Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), activated by the EU after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 202...

New #openaccess paper out in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies where we compare the experience & governance of #EU #TemporaryProtectionDirective in #Finland & #Sweden

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Finally, I highlight the importance of reading the sovereign through the figures of both a "homo sacer" and a "homo exemplar" because the sovereign’s power is manifested not only via the production of a state of exception but also equally through the creation of a state of example.

To achieve this, I present two cases from #Bangladesh and #Finland that demonstrate how one sovereign’s exception may be depicted as an #example by another, and how both the exception and the example may coexist within the same system.

The provocation of the paper, and its key contribution to knowledge, is to step back from the point where Agamben positions these two as indistinguishable and to clearly distinguish between them — simultaneously marking a shift in the current scholarship of the exception by bringing the example in.

The paper focuses on the #example as a contraposition to Giorgio Agamben’s #exception. In this paper, I argue that while equally crucial, the example remains a surprisingly under-studied phenomenon even though Agamben views it as the symmetrical opposite of the exception.

On the Example: The Need for a Complementary Contraposition to Giorgio Agamben’s Theorization of the Exception Giorgio Agamben’s theorization of the exception marks a shift in geographical scholarship and other social sciences. I argue, however, that although equally crucial, the example remains a surprisin...

I am excited share my new paper in the @Annals of the AAG! Open access, feel free to download from here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Podcast on my book Sovereign Atonement is out on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Here I talk details about #state, #sovereignty, #territory, #citizenship, #infrastructure, #southasia, #governmentality and many more.
Thanks to Anindita Ghosh for hosting.
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(PDF) Theorising the politics of famine: Bangladesh in 1974 PDF | 1974 saw the first-and last-famine in independent Bangladesh. The disaster killed two per cent of the population and caused a crisis of legitimacy... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

New paper theorizing the politics of famine, with the 1974 Bangladesh famine as the case study

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EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands

EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands by Gustavo de la Orden. @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature and the Arts Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature and the Arts, When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the Unive...

Theodor W. Adorno, Lectures 1949-1968, trans. Nicholas Walker - @politybooks.bsky.social, two volumes, February 2025
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