Expanded extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labor and Containment, and the Displaced
Mon 29 Jun
|Room 608, Building 19, Waseda University
Professor Ayse Caglar examines how racialized hierarchies and expanded forms of extractivism position displaced populations at the center of ongoing capitalist transformations.
Date and Venue
29 Jun 2026, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT+9
Room 608, Building 19, Waseda University, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Abstract:
Global displacement—one of the defining challenges of our time—is shaped by shifting legal and administrative categories that often obscure the structural and historical processes underlying it. In this talk, Professor Caglar proposes a framework that connects fragmented histories of displacement and urban development to the shifting forces of the global political economy. This framework brings into conversation the intertwined regimes of confined labor, containment, and the governance of displaced populations, inscribed into distinct historical periods and political regimes. The talk expands the notion of extractivism beyond its colonial and resource-based contexts to reveal the enduring racialized hierarchies embedded in contemporary European city-making. It explores how regimes of value and extractivism render displaced populations central to ongoing capitalist transformations.
Speaker:
Ayse Caglar is a sociologist and an anthropologist. She is a University Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna and is a permanent Fellow…