“Death in Life”: (Re-)Thinking the Coloniality of Border Violence with Fanon
A reading workshop with Wael Garnaoui exploring everyday border violence and the racial and colonial dynamics sustaining it.
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Date: 05 November 2025 from 10:00 to 12:00
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Event location: Aula 2, Complesso di S. Giovanni in Monte, University of Bologna, 40124 Bologna, Italy
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Access Details: Free admission until availability lasts
Programme
Aula 2, Complesso di S. Giovanni in Monte, University of Bologna
Facilitator
Wael Garnaoui, clinical psychologist and founder of the Border Studies Research Group, University of Sousse
Description
As part of the programme “Care and Liberation 100 Years after Fanon: Mental Health, Resistance and Colonial Oppression in Times of Genocide”, this reading workshop will focus on two key texts by Frantz Fanon, “The North African Syndrome” and “Racism and Culture”.
Together, participants will reflect on forms of border violence that are not spectacular but rather mundane: bureaucratic systems, routine identity checks, and administrative practices that shape exclusion and trauma.
The workshop invites academics, volunteers and activists working in solidarity and support for migrants to discuss how these processes reveal the racial and colonial nature of contemporary border control, and to imagine strategies of resistance.
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