In this experimental talk I use accent not in terms of a linguistic meaning but rather as a position. Accent as verb means to speak forcefully, to emphasize, and to accentuate. Accent means also breaking, a disruption of mainstream language. Accent reveals gaps and cracks in the otherwise imagined intact language, conversation, thinking. Accent as method offers a way to smash what otherwise is imagined as a whole and homogenous and thereby conflicts, contradictions, and disagreements are highlighted. Accented thinking is a response and a reaction to the condition of coloniality that structures the processes of knowledge production. In this talk I will focus on the place of accent in knowledge formation in the field of migration studies.
Shahram Khosravi is a former taxi driver and currently an accidental Professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University. Khosravi has published eight books. The most recent one is Seeing Like a Smuggler (2022, Pluto Press). He has been an active writer in international press and three years ago he started Critical Border Studies, a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact.
Doing Migration Studies with an Accent
28.02.2022
