Spaces of Governmentality

Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings

By: Martina Tazzioli

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eBook | 24 November 2014 | Edition Number 1

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Much work has been done on the causes and characteristics of the Arab Spring, but relatively little research has examined the political and spatial consequences that have developed following the uprisings.

This book engages with the ways in which spaces in Southern Europe and Northern Africa have been negotiated and transformed by migrants in the wake of the uprisings, showing that their struggles are a continuation of their political movement. Drawing on an innovative countermapping approach, based on radical cartography, Martina Tazzioli illustrates the spatial upheavals caused by migration in the Mediterranean and the transformations created by migration controls applied by European nations. With critical insight on the application of Foucault’s concept of governmentality to migration studies, exploration of a reconfigured theory of autonomy of migration and discussion of the politics of invisibility that underpins migration, this book sheds new light on the enduring struggles that follow the Arab Spring.

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Spaces of Governmentality is an exciting and important critical intervention into the study of borders and migration, positively overflowing with a vibrant new repertoire of concepts, images, and imaginations. Tazzioli’s refreshing analysis is strategically aligned with the unsettling disruptions and turbulence generated by the volatile and sometimes subversive force of the Tunisian revolution, particularly as manifested in the indisciplined aspirations and incorrigible desires of Tunisians whose mobility defied the European border regime and all of its governmental categories for “managing” migration and asylum-seeking. By means of a close and sensitive tracking of this counter-power of the autonomous movements and struggles of Tunisian migrants, Tazzioli provides us with a counter-mapping that is as politically daring as it is intellectually subtle.