Dr. Raffaela Puggioni

Scopus journal

• 2023. Rethinking the ordinary and the extraordinary: Reading Rancière’s dissensual politics through Kuhn. Thesis Eleven 175(1): 27-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136231165038

• 2023. Two years of the COVID-19 crisis: anxiety, creativity and the everyday, Societies, 13(2), 24. Special Issue on ‘COVID-19 as a Collective Trauma in Global Politics: Disruption, Destruction and Resilience’, edited by Dovile Budryte and Erica Resende. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13020024

•  2022. Reading COVID-19 pandemic with and beyond Foucault: the liberal subject and everyday practices of mobility. Politics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957221130263.

• 2021. Emergency, solidarity and responsibility. The ethics of the face-to-face (border) encounters, Journal of Borderlands Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2021.2017786

• 2021. Governing global subjects? Border-crossers and the limits of (global) governmentality. Global Society 35(3): 289-306.
• Choosing to Be Political: Some Reflections on Youth Activism in the US, Citizenship Studies 22: 3 (2018), pp. 243-258.
• Border Politics, Right to Life and Acts of Dissensus: Voices from Lampedusa-Borderland, Third World Quarterly 36: 6 (2015), pp. 1145-1159. Special Issue, Louiza Odysseos and Anna Selmeczi (eds.) The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power.
• Speaking Through the Body: Detention and Bodily Resistance in Italy, Citizenship Studies 18: 5 (2014), pp. 562-577. Special Issue, Raia Prokhovnik (ed.), The Body as a Site for Politics: Citizenship and Practices of Contemporary Slavery.
• Against Camps’ Violence: Some Voices on Italian Holding Centres, Political Studies 62: 4 (2014), pp. 945-960.
•  Refugees, Institutional Invisibility and Self-Help Strategies: Evaluating Kurdish Experience in Rome, Journal of Refugee Studies 18: 3 (2005), pp. 319-339.

• 2023. Re-imagining political life: beyond the climate-security-migration nexus, with Maria Julia Trombetta. In Handbook on Climate Change and International Security. Edited by Maria Julia Trombetta. Edward Elgar Publishing (forthcoming in December), https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-on-climate-change-and-international-security-9781789906431.html
• Rethinking International Protection: The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee, in Migration, Minorities and Citizenship Series, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
• Border Politics, Right to Life and Acts of Dissensus: Voices from Lampedusa-Borderland, in Louiza Odysseos and Anna Selmeczi (eds.) The Power of Human Rights/The Human Rights of Power, Routledge, 2017.
• Italian Politics of Asylum: No Settlement, Reception Only, in Monica K. Zimmermann (ed.), Political Refugees: Social Conditions, Health and Psychological Characteristics, Nova Science Publishers, 2008, pp. 63-84
• Resisting Sovereign Power: Camps in-between Exception and Dissent, in Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, and Raia Prokhovnik (eds.) The Politics of Protection. Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency, Routledge, 2006, pp. 68-83.
• Looking for Some Coherence: Migrants in-between Criminalisation and Protection, in Elspeth Guild and Paul Minderhoud (eds.), Immigration and Criminal Law in the European Union, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006, pp. 169-200.

• Two-year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, under Horizon 2020 for the project MOBILISE: ‘Stay home’: Emergency, (Im)mobility, and the Liberal Subject, to be carried out at LUISS University, Rome, starting from 1^st July 2021. Grant no: 101024492.
• Research grant, ADA University [2016].
• Research grant, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China [2015].
• Research grant, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China [2012].
• Small Seed Grant, University of Nottingham, for attending the workshop on ‘Complexities of Governance/Resistance’, University of Nottingham Malaysia [2012].
• Travel award, St. John’s University for attending the epsNet Annual Conference, University of Ljubljana [2007]
• Travel award, the European Community Studies Association, for attending the conference at the University of Madison, Wisconsin [2001].
• Full scholarship (Tuition fees and living allowance), Region of Sardinia, for the PhD programme at the University of Kent [1998-2002].
• Full scholarship (Tuition fees and living allowance), Region of Sardinia, for the MA programme at the University of Kent [1996-1997].

Prof. (Dr) Puggioni’s research has developed along the following three lines of enquiry: 1) in the area of international migration and refugee protection beyond traditional state-centric analysis, 2) in the area of everyday practices, by focussing on acts of resistance inside holding centres, camps and border-zones; and 3) in the area of political subjectivity, exploring in particular the ways by which ‘undocumented’ migrants resist dominant politics of (im)mobility.

In her book, Rethinking International Protection: The Sovereign, the State, the Refugee (2016), Dr Puggioni has highlighted the distinction between protection and assistance, and particularly, the difference between a politics of protection in which states are the sole guarantor for allocating and respecting rights and a politics of assistance in which charities and international agencies are tasked with the delivery of goods and the satisfaction of basic needs. She argued that there is a need to rethink the very concept of protection, and particularly to move away from the (dominant) concept of negative protection, which entails a protection from — persecution, violence and life-threatening events — and to embrace the concept of positive protection — a protection towards emancipation, safety and human rights — which requires the direct involvement of the liberal/constitutional state. Thus, if we were to rethink protection, more attention should be devoted to (the attribute of) the state: not the sovereign state but the constitutional state.

She is currently working on a new project that critically engages with current debate on ‘governing migration’. However, rather than investigating how mobility is controlled, disciplined and governed as a great part of International Relations literature does, ‘she questions whether the ‘subject of mobility’ — and specifically the border-crosser — might not be governable through current  security dispositifs. Her reading of governmentality-cum-mobility suggests that there is a need to integrate ‘how questions’ with ‘who questions’. Not simply how to control, govern and manage border (people), but also who is the subject to be controlled, governed, and managed.