You are warmly invited to our upcoming book launch event:
Thursday, 27 November, 16.00-17.30 (UK time), online
Paolo Boccagni, Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance, University of California Press.
We will be joined by two discussants:
Martina Tazzioli, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Bologna
Susie Scott, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex.
The event will be chaired by Professor Anastasia Christou, Middlesex University.
If you would like to attend the book launch, please register via Eventbrite here
The Zoom link will be circulated to registered participants the day before the event. More information on the speakers is included below, and the book is available open access here.
Paolo Boccagni is Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. He has extensively researched and written on migration, home, displacement, absence, and everyday life. He is the author of Migration and the Search for Home (2017) and the editor of the Handbook on Home and Migration (2023).
Martina Tazzioli is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Bologna. Her research focuses on migration and borders in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region. She is the author of Border Abolitionism: Migration Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles (2023), The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (2019), Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (2015) and co-author of Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (2016).
Susie Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex. She specialises in the micro-sociological theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and Goffman’s dramaturgy, applied to questions of social identity. Susie is the author of Shyness and Society: The Illusion of Competence (2007), Making Sense of Everyday Life (2009), Total Institutions and Reinvented Identities (2011), Negotiating Identity: Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Social Identity (2015), The Social Life of Nothing: Silence, Invisibility and Emptiness in Tales of Lost Experience (2019) and Narratives of Nothing: Storying the Unlived Life (2026). Susie is also a qualified psychotherapist and counsellor.