Worlding and Storying Forced Displacement : Contemporary Art and Refugee Experience in Denmark / Anne Ring Petersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petersen, Anne Ring, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The question of how refugees are to be hosted and represented in Europe is not only an urgent one but a persistent one. Drawing on art history, migration studies and postmigration studies, Anne Ring Petersen examines contemporary artistic representations of forced displacement. She argues that artistic and curatorial practices can help foster cultural citizenship among refugees and asylum seekers as well as deepening the understanding of refugeedom in host countries through art's worldmaking and storytelling capacities. Focusing on Denmark, and including a chapter on Palestine, this study adds new perspectives to postmigration studies and a pioneering exploration of understudied material to art history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editorial

Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Prologue: Voices and borders

Introduction

1. Making worlds, telling stories, claiming voice: theoretical considerations

2. Refugees, worldmaking and transversal politics through art

3. Building collective infrastructures and strategies of care at documenta fifteen

4. A postmigrant civic ethics from the perspective of the refugee

5. Bringing refugee memories and heritage into public view

6. Killing time in Gaza and speculative Palestinian futures

Conclusion: Refugees and representation

Bibliography

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed February 05 2026)

ISBN:

9783839433843