INAPPROPRIABLE

Archiving fugitive infrastructure across frontier ecologies


Inappropriable investigates spaces, practices and territories beyond their propriety, proprietal and appropriate dimensions in the violent, predatory and armed present looking at its fugitive infrastructures and subtractive politics. Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.

As a research project, it focuses on the material and temporal conditions of migrant settlements and as spatial thresholds; on agro-industrial ghettos and fugitive or marooned inhabitations, thereby interrogating their production and reproduction across different ecologies, geographies and discursive formations. 

As a collective investigation, it allows a diverse and heterogeneous group of researchers to experiment with methodologies (historical and narrative explorations; design and art-based speculations; photography and cartography; activist and situated practices) and to share interests, avenues of research, political preoccupations and trajectories regarding local political activism. 

As a possibility, it serves as an infrastructure to observe and engage with a variety of politics of transformation that impact frontier territories of the Black Mediterranean, landscapes of energy transition, neo-colonial ecologies and geographies where space and race are cont
inuously reconfigured through securitarian control and governmental management and erasure.
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    Inappropriable is a research, a collective investigation and a condition of possibility which sets out to interrogate practices of inhabitation, infrastructures of life, of marronage and fugitive worldling, focusing on labour ecologies in territories of migration: frontiers where bodies, spaces and labour are reconfigured through extractive and plantation-like capitalist processes of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion.