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Contribution short abstract

This poster reconceptualises displacement as a multiscalar socioecological regime governing mobility, emplacement, and precarity. Drawing on political ecology and affective governance, fieldwork shows how queer, migrantised, and racialised people are rendered perpetually displaceable.

Contribution long abstract

This poster reframes displacement through an interdisciplinary lens, arguing that it is not a discrete event but a multiscalar regime of governance that hinders place-making and just transitions. Rather than labelling individuals as “displaced”, I conceptualize people as displaceable within intersecting social, political, and ecological power relations. Drawing on power-geometry, biopolitics, debility, and affective governmentality, displacement is theorised as a productive force that spatially and affectively governs bodies, shaping how people inhabit and move through urban spaces. I examine technologies of displacement as socioecological practices that manufacture precarity and produce zones of erasure within the city. This approach highlights how structural conditions, such as infrastructural neglect and urban undervaluation produce ongoing precarities rather than singular events of displacement. The analysis centres on queer, migrantised, and racialised people whose performances of heteronormativity, citizenship, or ethnonational belonging fall outside dominant expectations, rendering them persistently at risk of disemplacement.

Grounded in nearly a year of fieldwork in Athens, Greece, this poster presents empirical examples of neighborhoods and communities experiencing continuous displaceability without crossing into the formal categories of “displaced persons”. By combining theoretical frameworks with fieldwork data, the project illustrates how displacement operates as a diffuse and productive apparatus of power.