Transnational communities for dismantling detention: From Manus Island to the UK

Behrouz Boochani published No Friend but the Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison in 2018 which went on to win the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature while he was still incarcerated in Manus Prison. Since its publication the book has attracted a great deal of worldwide attention, particualrly from UK academics – it was released in the UK in 2019. Prior to winning Australia’s richest literary award his film Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival and its international premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. The feature-length film has also been screened at numerous UK universities. In February 2020 Behrouz and translator Omid Tofighian engaged with academics and activists in the UK over a series of events; this article is an edited version of various conversations that emerged from these collaborations and critically discusses the global nature of border violence and the colonial ideology at the heart of immigration detention

Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom

Across the political spectrum of different historical periods, welfare deterrence has shaped social security and immigration policy in both Australia and the United Kingdom. Deterrence discourages access to state welfare through the production and mobilization of negative affect to deter specific groups from claiming state support, and by crafting public affect (of fear and disgust) about these target populations in order to garner consent for punitive policies. In this paper, we argue that deterrence works as a human technology where the crafting of negative affect operates as a technology of statecraft. Through critical juxtaposition and multiple genealogies of deterrence, this paper meshes time and space, and colony/colonizer and metropole, to show the historical and contemporary connectivity of the affective nature of deterrence. We identify five main operations that produce the ‘feel’ of deterrence: stigmatization by design, destitution by design, deterrent architecture, the control of movement, and the centrality of labour; as well as tracing the political economy of deterrence

Effect of Si and Ge Surface Doping on the Be2C Monolayer: Case Study on Electrical and Optical Properties

The electronic and optical properties of X (Si, Ge) doped Be2C monolayer has been investigated using the all-electron full potential linear augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW+lo) method in a scalar relativistic version as embodied in the Wien2k code based on the density functional theory. Using cohesive energy calculation, it has been shown that the Si and Ge doped to Be2C monolayer have stable structures and the doping processes modified the direct band gaps. The calculated electronic band structure confirm the direct band gap nature since the conduction band minimum and the valence band maximum are located at the center of the Brillouin zone. The total and partial density of states help to gain further information regarding the hybridizations and the orbitals which control the energy band gap. The calculated optical properties help to gain deep insight into the electronic structure. Our calculated results indicate that the X (Si, Ge) doped Be2C monolayer can be have potential application in optoelectronics devices