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Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship (2013)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2014). Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 46(1), 72-91. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12026

This paper explores the ways in which practices of asylum governance serve to depoliticise those seeking asylum in the UK. In critiquing claims over the “post‐political” nature of contemporary governance, the paper proposes a focus upon situated prac... Read More about Asylum and the Post-Political: Domopolitics, Depoliticisation and Acts of Citizenship.

Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique (2013)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2013). Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique. Environment and Planning A, 45(8), 1785-1801. https://doi.org/10.1068/a45441

The city of Sheffield was the UK's first ‘City of Sanctuary’, an identification which suggested that the city would act to welcome asylum seekers and refugees through promoting a ‘culture of hospitality’. In this paper I seek to interrogate such clai... Read More about Moral Urbanism, Asylum, and the Politics of Critique.