BISA 2025 Conference

Health(care) and its bordering mechanisms

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 09:00

1h 30m

Berlin, Europa Hotel (Berlin, Europa Hot)

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Description

A panel on the various ways through which health, care, and healthcare are imbued with carcerality and bordering mechanisms, and the ways in which they can be resisted.

Subcontributions

• Dignities and/or Deaths: Carcerality and Punishment Accessing Healthcare As Trans/Queer
• Nervous Strength - Sovereignty, Psychiatry, and the Making of the Modern German State, 1871-1969
• Imagining International Relations Otherwise: Care as a Radical Practice of Resistance
• Racialised Bordering Practices in the NHS