Foreclosure and its Foreshadows: Inside the ‘Black Heart’ of Naples

The seminar series is funded by a grant from UKRI. SOAS launched its Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) this year, as a centre that aims to foster collaborations between anthropology and mental health research and practice.

 

Event Abstract

This is a time of popular expulsion from the means of urban life, overseen by predatory moves by power to negotiate escalating hazard and risk. These are moves to anticipate the future through foreclosure. Yet, in the untimely contemporary between the already and yet to come (Agamben), another temporality lingers of makeshift relations and artisanal improvisations, old ways of meeting adversity in popular neighbourhoods. It announces another future based on foregoing and incipience.

This seminar will explore the balances of urban foreclosure and foreshadowing, drawing on the struggles of displaced Neapolitans and exploited Africans in Castel Volturno, a coastal settlement near Naples marked by speculative profiteering in ruination.

Speaker

Professor Ash Amin, University of Cambridge.

 

Registration

The event is free to attend, but external/non-SOAS visitor are required to register via the link at the top of the page.