The bit about refugees
Hi @Yannick, welcome to Edgeryders! Can’t remember if we crossed paths at LOTE5 in Brussels, but I’m happy it ended up with you getting to re:publica.
Loved your account about Saskia Sassen’s talk and “habitat refugees” - looked it up online and found a recording here, for whoever else is interested.
What I find strange is that whenever we talk about refugees (all 3 categories) I either have conversations about 1) groups on the ground making ends meet at very basic levels - essentially coping (I heartily recommend the story of Calais - The Jungle reported by Alex Levene) or 2) instrumental politics and discourse that doesn’t leave anything to add to it - it’s simply that disconnected from ground realities.
Somehow groups wishing to change this are left with no middle ground - just hacking our way through regimes: taking the streets for even small victories, prototyping new approaches in areas with (still) abundant resources and hoping to be left alone etc. She says something interesting about ending regimes though… do you see any need for more radical, scaled up community responses? And by the way, what’s your area of activism? 