Vasiliki Makrygianni presented on "Militarising Nature"
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Event location: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
June 15-16 Vasiliki Makrygianni participated in the workshop ‘Infrastructuring ‘Nature’ as Border Technique’ at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as part of the research project InfraNature. Vasiliki contributed with a presentation entitled “Militarizing Nature at Europe's Maritime Frontier: Border Infrastructure, Local Communities, and hostility- by- design processes in the Eastern Aegean Archipelago.” In her talk she discussed how contemporary border regimes operate through the militarization of nature. Focusing on Greece's Closed Controlled Access Centres (CCACs), she explored how remote locations, environmental conditions, and spatial isolation are incorporated into technologies of control and containment.
The workshop focused on developing shared concepts, methods, and evidence-gathering practices for understanding how nature and infrastructure are mobilized in exclusionary governance, producing inhospitable landscapes while obscuring forms of state violence. Participating at the workshop offered valuable insights on research conducted in the Mediterranean Sea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey-Iran Border, Croatia and Colombia.