Breaching borders : art, migrants and the metaphor of waste /
As migrations is described as a problem, mobility is seen as a goal. In a Europe 'without borders,' a place that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling with racism, two opposing paradigms characterize contemporary discussions surrounding migrants. Breaching borders: art, migran...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2014.
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| Series: | International library of cultural studies ;
35. |
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| Summary: | As migrations is described as a problem, mobility is seen as a goal. In a Europe 'without borders,' a place that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling with racism, two opposing paradigms characterize contemporary discussions surrounding migrants. Breaching borders: art, migrants, and the metaphor of waste aims to examine familiar debates, evolve new textual and interdisciplinary approaches to European cultural policies and illuminate the assumptions surrounding the essentialist identity politics that lie unacknowledged at the borders of cultural discourse. Twelve leading figures in post-colonials and translation studies, political philosophy, art, radical aesthetics, policy-making and scoiology, reflect on the political and cultural meanings of migration; their arguments framed by artworks that provde glimpses of cross-cultural encounters. Essays, including a meditation on 'wasted lives' by internationally renowned academic Zygmunt Bauman, explore the challenges of migration, history and integration and attempt to develop radical new figurations of migrant identity, underlining the necessity of imaginative reach towards 'The Other.' This book brings together the roles of translation and of art in the central metaphor waste, the trail of rubbish left behind by mechanisms of mobility, the excised narratives of wasted identities and people. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780762593 (hbk.) 1780762593 (hbk.) |