Topographies of "Borderland Schengen" Documental Images of Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands Jan Kühnemund

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Kühnemund, Jan <p>Jan Kühnemund, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Deutschland</p>, Author.

Series:

Image

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration.

Border.

Documentary Film.

Visuality.

Film.

Image.

Political Art.

Refugee Studies.

Media Studies.

Local Subjects:

Migration.

Border.

Documentary Film.

Visuality.

Film.

Image.

Political Art.

Refugee Studies.

Media Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Kühnemund, Topographies of »Borderland Schengen« Documental Images of Undocumented Migration in European Borderlands

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Jan Kühnemund (Dr.), born in 1975, completed his PhD at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He also holds an MA degree in Political Science, Visual Media, and English. He works at Europa-Universität Flensburg. From 2010 to 2017, he was part of the team coordinating the African-European Erasmus Mundus Course "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations" at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Occasionally he also works as a freelance journalist.

Summary:

Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the `European refugee crisis', Jan Kühnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses. As an analytical framework, he conceptualises `Borderland Schengen' as a visual-political transnational space emerging from the interplay of migration movements and border policies. Putting the spaces and iconologies of `illegal' migration under scrutiny and aiming at establishing their protagonists as subjects, Kühnemund in this regard reads the films as attempts at discursive participation as an aesthetic political practice.

Besprochen in:Eidgenössische Migrationskommission EKM, 4 (2018)

Contents:

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 1. Introduction 7 2. Coordinates 21 3. The Transnational Social Space of "Borderland Schengen" 61 4. The Visuality and Mediality of Documentary Film 101 5. Representational and Performative Practices 145 6. Attempts of Visibility and Recognition 179 7. Transnational Social Spaces - Transitional Social Spaces 217 8. Conclusion: Borderland Counter-Topographies 251 Filmography 265 Bibliography 267

Notes:

Based on thesis (doctoral)-Berlin University of Arts.

Includes bibliographical references and filmography.

ISBN:

9783839442081

3839442087

OCLC:

1031963717