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Reproducing refugees *

ISBN: 9781786610232

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Fecha de Edición 15/02/2020
Plazo de entrega

24 h

Número de Edición

1

Idioma

Inglés

Formato

Libro

Páginas

226

Lugar de edición

ESTADOS UNIDOS

Encuadernación

Cartoné

Colección

CHALLENGING MIGRATION STUDIES

Editorial

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS

EAN

978-1-78661-023-2

Reproducing refugees

Since 2015, the ‘refugee crisis’ is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crisis in history. Photographs taken, for instance, in Lesvos, Greece, and Bodrum, Turkey, were instrumental in generating waves of public support for, and populist opposition to “welcoming refugees” in Europe. But photographs do not circulate in a vacuum; this book explores the visual economy of the ‘refugee crisis,’ showing how the reproduction of images. Is structured by, and secures hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and ‘race’, essential to the functioning of bordered nation-states. Taking photography not only as the object of research, but innovating the method of photographìa— the material trace of writing/ grafì with light/ phos— this book urges us to view images and their reproduction critically. Part theoretical text, part visual essay, ReproducingRefugees vividly shows how institutional violence underpins both the spectacularity and the banality of ‘crisis.’

This book goes about synthesising visual studies with queer, feminist, postcolonial, post-structuralist, and post-Marxist theories. Reproducing Refugees: Photographìa of a Crisis offers theoretical frameworks and methodological tools to critically analyse representations, both those
circulated through hegemonic institutions, and those generated from ‘below’.

It carves a space between logos and praxis , ways of knowing and ways of doing, by offering a new visual language that problematises reified categories such as that of the ‘refugee’ and makes possible disruptive alternative, resistant perceptions . The book contributes to the fields of migration and border studies, critically engaging visual narratives drawn from migration movements. To question dominant categories and frameworks, from a decolonial, no-borders, queer feminist perspective.

Inroduction: Arrivals and Departures

Chapter 1: Crisis and Reproduction

Chapter 2: Photographìa

Chapter 3: Life Jackets

Chapter 4: Containers

Chapter 5: Survival Selfies

Chapter 6: Refugees Welcome

Conclusion: Departures and Arrivals

Bibliography

Anna Carastathis is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University in Athens, Greece.

Myrto Tsilimpounidi is Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences.