Refugee imaginaries : research across the humanities / edited by Emma Cox...(and 5 others)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Emma, Author.

Contributor:

Cox, Emma, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees.

Refugees in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 642 pages.) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

The refugee has emerged as one of the key figures of the twenty-first-century. This book explores how refugees imagine the world and how the world imagines them. It demonstrates the ways in which refugees have been written into being by international law, governmental and non-governmental bodies and the media, and foregrounds the role of the arts and humanities in imagining, historicising and protesting the experiences of forced migration and statelessness. Including thirty-two newly written chapters on representations by and of refugees from leading researchers in the field, Refugee Imaginaries establishes the case for placing the study of the refugee at the centre of contemporary critical enquiry.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Agnes Woolley

Part I. Refugee genealogies

Introduction / Lyndsey Stonebridge

Refugees in modern world history / Peter Gatrell

Theories of the refugee, after Hannah Arendt / Ned Curthoys

A genealogy of refugee writing / Arthur Rose

Genres of refugee writing / Anna Bernard

Part II. Asylum

Introduction / Agnes Woolley

Sexual and gender-based asylum and the queering of global space: Reading desire, writing identity and the unconventionality of the law / Sudeep Dasgupta

Morality and law in the context of asylum claims / Anthony Good

The politics of the empty gesture: Frameworks of sanctuary, theatre and the city / Alison Jeffers

Part III. The border

Introduction / Emma cox

Docu/fiction and the aesthetics of the border / Agnes Woolley

Crossings, bodies, behaviors / Liam Connell

The digital border: The media or refugee reception during the 2015 Migration Crisis / Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou

Part IV. Intra/extraterritorial displacement

Introduction / Sam Durrant

The Dead Road, displacement and the recovery of life-in-common: Narrating the African conflict zone / Maureen Moynagh

What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?: Memoir of the Aporia of refuge in Hisam Matar's The Return / Norbert Bugeja

A man carries his door: Affective displacement and refugee poetry / Douglas Robinson

Reframing climate migration: A case for constellation thinking in the writing of Teju Cole / Byron Caminero-Santangelo

Part V. The camp

Introduction / Emma Cox

Memories and meaning of refugee camps (and more-than-camps) / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Writing the camp: Death, dying and dialects / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

Reel refugees: Inside and outside the camp / Madelaine Hron

Part VI. Sea crossing

Introduction / David Farrier

Zoopolitics of asylum seeker marine deaths and cultures of anthropophagy / Joseph Pugliese

The Mediterranean sieve, spring and seametery / Hakin Abderrezak

Island is no arrival: Migrants islandment at the borders of Europe / Mariangela Palladino

At sea: Hope as survival and sustenance for refugees / Parvati Nair

Part VII. Digital territories

Networked narratives: Online self-expression from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon / Mary Mitchell

Refugee writing, refugee history: Locating the refugee archive in the making of a history of the Syrian War / Dima Saber and Paul Long

Digital biopolitics, Humanitarianism and datafication of refugees / Btihaj Ajana

The Messenger: Refugee testimony and the search for adequate witness / Gillian Whitlock and Rosanne Kennedy

Part VIII. Home

Home and law: Impersonality and worldlessness in J.M. Coetzee's The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, Ging, Gegangen / Daniel Harley

Autobiography of a ghost: Home and haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees / Mireille Rosello

Homing as a co-creative work: When home becomes a village / Misha Myers and Marian Issa

Part IX. Open Cities

Another politics of the city: Urban practices of refuge, advocacy and activism / Jonathan Darling

The welcome city? / Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite

In the city's public spaces: Movements of witnesses and the formation of moral community / André Grahle

Open/closed cities: Cosmopolitan melancholia and the disavowal of refugee life / Sam Durrant.

ISBN:

9781474443210

1474443214

OCLC:

1312727189