« Nulle part mieux qu’entre ces murs, quatre murs et un plafond de ciel, je n’aurai goûté aux lèvres du vent la senteur brisée des tilleuls ; en cette citerne d’oubli où nous gisons, la tête pleine de « debout ». »
La Cavale Partie I Chapitre IX
]]>Cérémonie d’écoute païenne
wi watt’heure #37 se fait l’écho du mouvement des théâtres occupés au printemps 2021 en France, en zoomant sur un théâtre, le Théâtre Molière de Sète, et sur une des actions proposées par son collectif d’occupation, le collectif #Occupy_Molière. L’action choisie est la #lecture_publique de la liste des 44.764 réfugié·es décédé·es sur la route pour rejoindre l’Europe. Cette liste est régulièrement mise à jour par l’association #UNITED_Against_Refugee_Deaths.
Une lecture publique a eu lieu le 26 juin à #Sète, dans le parc Simone Veil.
Nous avons choisi pour #wi_watt’heure de donner à entendre la première année, qui liste les réfugié·es décédé·es de mai 2021 à mai 2020. Ces noms et prénoms, ainsi que les raisons du décès, ont été relus et enregistrés le 16 septembre, dans le studio Les Ombres d’Ondes, à l’occasion de cette publication.
L’action est définie comme une « #cérémonie_d’écoute_païenne ». Il s’agit d’un #rituel pour #nommer, faire résonner et ainsi sortir de l’oubli ces personnes qui restent toujours sous le seuil du visible et de l’audible. Ce geste de #deuil est vocalisé près de la mer méditerranée – cette frontière liquide et fluide, mais inaccessible, entre Europe et Afrique – et donné à entendre pour convoquer une #écoute_collective.
Dans la continuité, le collectif Occupy Molière souhaite proposer à d’autres collectifs de différentes villes en Europe de le rejoindre dans une action plus large qui serait de relire cette liste, le même jour, partout dans le continent.
▻https://revue-et-corrigee.net/?v=wwh&PHPSESSID=4da3fb130d85b5fda05d6f9a07ea1b7b
Pour écouter la cérémonie :
▻https://soundcloud.com/user-903371861-530658408/wi-wattheure-37
#liste #mourir_aux_frontières #performance #lecture #morts_aux_frontières #commémoration #asile #migrations #réfugiés
#audio #son
The faces and names of a migration tragedy
Italian newspaper identifies migrants who died on boat which drifted for days
The Italian newspaper Avvenire has identified migrants who were “left to drown” before the boat they were in the central Mediterranean was taken back to Libya a few days after Easter.
“The faces of silence: Here are the refugees who were left to drown,” the newspaper said in its headline on Wednesday.
Times of Malta reported last week that a Libyan-registered fishing boat owned by a Maltese man had been directed by local authorities to help the migrants at sea. The vessel took migrants back to Libya.
Five of the migrants aboard were found dead in the boat while another seven were missing when survivors were returned to Libya.
“The victims of our indifference have names and faces like us,” Archbishop Charles Scicluna said in comments to Times of Malta.
Avvenire said those who died on the boat were Nohom Mehari, Kidus Yohannes, Filmon Habtu, Filmon Desale and Debesay Rusom.
The other seven missing were Filmon Mengstab, Mogos Tesfamichael, Hdru Yemane, Huruy Yohannes, Omer Seid, Hzqiel Erdom and Teklay Kinfe, it said
They were aged between 18 and 25 and some were on their second attempt to cross into Europe.
The newspaper says the migrants set sail from Sabratha in Libya between April 9 and 10 and drifted for days without food or water ’in an attempt to realise their dream of arriving in Christian Europe on Easter day."
“They knew what it meant to be captured by the Libyans and returned to the hands of the torturers,” the newspaper adds.
Their boat was spotted by a Frontex (European border agency) plane and their position was forwarded to the Italian and Maltese authorities
“For five days they were left adrift, despite the desperate requests for help from (NGO) Alarm Phone and despite the appeals of the Maltese Church,” it adds.
Italian and Maltese coordination centres reportedly argued over which area of responsibility the boat was in - Libyan, Maltese or Italian.
“It was Good Friday, the Pilate’s day,” the newspaper remarks, a reference to Pontius Pilate having shirked responsibility.
Two days after Easter the migrants’ boat was intercepted by a ’mysterious fishing boat’. Some of the migrants died when they jumped into the rough sea, trying to reach the fishing boat.
The tragedy happened with Lampedusa just 30 miles away, and Malta 80 miles away.
But the surviving migrants were taken back to Libya, ’fed to the Libyan torturers’.
The newspaper said it hoped someone would show the faces of the migrants to investigators in Malta looking into the case.
It quoted lawyer Giulia Tranchina insisting that “all the elements and evidence that have emerged so far indicate serious legal responsibilities on the part of the Maltese authorities,” the boat having drifted for days in the Malta search and rescue zone.
The incident is now the subject of a magisterial inquiry.
►https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/the-faces-and-names-of-a-migration-tragedy.788723
#identification #noms #nommer #identifier #13_avril_2020 #naufrage #Méditerranée #morts #décès #mourir_en_mer #morts_en_mer #tragédie_de_Pâques #Malte #Libye
voir aussi:
►https://seenthis.net/messages/849512
Les #Kurdes de #Syrie rebaptisent des villages arabisés
Sur une route poussiéreuse du nord-est de la Syrie, une femme et ses quatre enfants marquent un arrêt devant un nouveau panneau à l’entrée de Joldara, le nom kurde de leur village qui s’appelait jusqu’à présent Chajra.
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/sites/ci_master/files/styles/image_original_765/public/afp/4d657cb6f0ca93c26ceab5520ea8f5d8e80e425c.jpg?itok=2VnsC7Lq
▻http://www.courrierinternational.com/depeche/les-kurdes-de-syrie-rebaptisent-des-villages-arabises.afp.com
#toponymie #kurdistan #langue #kurde #arabe
Pratique du pouvoir
Collette Guillaumin
Colette-Guillaumin-Pratique-du-pouvoir-et-idée-de-Nature-1-Lappropriation-des-femmes.pdf
▻http://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Colette-Guillaumin-Pratique-du-pouvoir-et-id%C3%A9e-de-Nature-
#féminisme #femmes #hétérosexualité #Colette_Guillaumin #appropriation
]]>Qui dit quoi ? | CSP 75
►https://csp75.wordpress.com/qui-dit-quoi
S’agissant des migrants, réfugiés, demandeurs d’asile et autres exilés…
d’autres graphiques et analyses, à partir de ce tableau de comptage.
“Country name used by the people of each country in its most commonly used language”
]]>Uchronies toponymiques : ma ville a un nom de parc d’attraction
▻http://www.pop-up-urbain.com/uchronies-toponymiques-ma-ville-a-un-nom-de-parc-dattraction
Si vous traînez souvent par ici [sur pop-up urbain], vous savez déjà que la ville est un jeu. Le concept de ville-ludique y a été défini de longue date et les exemples de ludification urbaine y sont légion. Parfois, c’est l’inverse, le loisir préexiste à la ville. Au point même qu’il va s’inscrire dans ce qu’elle a de plus intime : son nom. La pratique de la chasse aurait par exemple donné leur toponyme en “Garenne” à plusieurs villes de la presqu’île nord des Hauts-de-Seine (Clichy-la-Garenne, Villeneuve-la-Garenne ou la Garenne-Colombes). Il y a deux autres exemples encore plus savoureux (et méconnus) en banlieue sud de Paris : l’origine des noms du Kremlin-Bicêtre et de Malakoff.
#Toponymie #Géographie #Toponyme #Nommer_les_Lieux #Nommer_l_Espace #Représenter_l_Espace #Représenter_la_Ville #Géographie_Urbaine #Études_Urbaines
]]>The North of the South and the West of the East
▻http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/108
Geopolitical naming and mapping are fictions, and #fictions have creators. Take the regional name ’#Maghreb'. If you look for the ’meaning’ of Maghreb on the Internet in a standard search – which to my mind expresses the general understanding of the term – you will find the ’reference’: that is, the name of the countries within the Maghreb. If you insist, you will find the etymology of the word, and not the reference: ’the place of the setting sun’.[3] The source will also tell you, so you do not get lost, that it is in the west that the sun sets. But to the west of what, you may wonder. It may take a while to realize that the Maghreb is located on the side where the sun sets in relation to Mecca and Medina.[4]
On the other hand, if you search for the meaning of ’#Occident' (again in a standard Google search) you will find that the term incorporates the countries of the western world, especially Europe and America. If you search for the etymology, you will find that the term comes from the Latin occidentem: ’the part of the sky where the sun sets’.[5] Now, if Europe and America are countries ’to the west’ then what west are they in relation to? If you continue to search, you will find out: the west of Jerusalem.
The act of naming and mapping is always an act of #identification, and identification at this level requires someone who is in a position to name and map. Furthermore, effective naming and mapping can only be done from a position of power that overrules local senses of territoriality. Take Alfred Thayer Mahan, who in 1902 renamed a region that was identified in Orientalist discourse as the ’Near East’ with the label ’Middle East’.[6] Thayer Mahan was not interested in people, but in natural resources and strategic geo-political mapping, and a great deal of India’s territory became part of his newly identified ’Middle East’. But not everyone in the region was happy with such an identification and proceeded to dis-identify from it, making it clear that in this case, naming cartographic regions carries the weight of #imperial identification. There is never a direct relation between the name and the map on the one hand, and the people and the region on the other.[7]
Here, the consolidation and expansion contained in the act of naming and mapping is not only economic and political, but also – and above all – epistemic in terms of authority, and the management of knowledge and identities. Geopolitical naming and mapping are fictions in the sense that there is no ontological configuration that corresponds to what is named and mapped. The act is possible through a control of knowledge; and it requires epistemic privilege that makes naming and mapping believable and acceptable. That naming and mapping territories and peoples creates fictional cartographies does not mean that what is mapped and named already had an ontological existence beyond its mapping and naming, either. On the contrary, they are grounded in the interests of people, #institutions and languages (modern European vernacular languages grounded in Greek and Latin) who have the privilege of naming and mapping.
#cartographie #nommer #pouvoir #géopolitique #étymologie #langage #connaissance #epistémique
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