[Linganth] CaMP reading group - Andrew Carruthers

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues
 CaMP reading group is continuing, and this time Andrew Carruthers is
visiting at noon-1 pm east coast time on September 25th to discuss his
book, Spectres of Affinity.

He has asked us to read the preface and introduction.. Please read as much
as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read
everything.

The introduction  and preface can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fL9ws64nhnZGpYmZAskz7mlqybUehTVC/view?usp=drive_link

The meeting will be at noon to 1 pm east coast time --Friday, September
25th and can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

  https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698 <https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698>

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana

Press blurb: Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear
signs of their so-called outsider status. In the absence of such signs,
however, how is the “illegal immigrant” made legible or policed? How might
migrants negotiate their statuses as objects of state surveillance by
exploiting their similarities or affinities with those who seek them
out? *Spectres
of Affinity* explores these issues in the east Malaysian state of Sabah, a
scene of some of the largest clandestine cross-border flows in the world,
and a place where migrants are widely assumed to look, talk, and otherwise
behave like locals.

In Sabah, the ability of outsiders to pass as insiders has long animated
public anxieties about the boundaries of citizenship, ethnicity, race,
religion, labour, and language. Against this backdrop of social
indeterminacy and political uncertainty, migrants and Malaysians are now
jointly evaluating and adjudicating the ways they are *sama, tapi berbeza* –
“the same, but different” – to sometimes devastating effect. In exploring
the social life of comparison in the shadow of a notoriously porous
Southeast Asian border, *Spectres of Affinity* calls for renewed attention
to comparison not merely as a rarefied social scientific method or mode of
inquiry, but as part of people’s everyday equipment for living in
increasingly uncertain and unsettling times.
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