Reframing Migration

Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion
Buch | Softcover
2019
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-1884-6 (ISBN)

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lt;p>This book reframes the debate around migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around Lampedusa, by exploring how art forms - including works by Aida Silvestri, Bouchra Khalili, Isaac Julien, Maya Ramsay, Dagmawi Yimer and Broomberg & Chanarin - have become a platform for subverting the dominant narrative of migration.


lt;p>Over the past two decades, national and supranational institutions and the mass media have played a central role in presenting the migrant struggle in a sensational way, spreading an unjustified moral panic and relegating migrants themselves to spaces of invisibility.

Building on recent theoretical debates in migration studies around the so-called «autonomy of migration» - which sees people on the move as individuals with self-determination and agency - this book reframes migration in the Mediterranean, and specifically around the island of Lampedusa.

In particular, the book explores how activist and art forms have become a platform for subverting the dominant narrative of migration and generating a vital form of political dissent, by revealing the contradictions and paradoxes of the securitarian regime that regulates immigration into Europe.

The analysis focuses on works by, among others, Broomberg & Chanarin, Centre for Political Beauty, Forensic Architecture, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen, Isaac Julien, Tamara Kametani, Bouchra Khalili, Kalliopi Lemos, Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Maya Ramsay, Giacomo Sferlazzo, Aida Silvestri, Ai Weiwei, Lucy Woodand Dagmawi Yimer.

Federica Mazzara is Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication at the University of Westminster. Her research interests lie in the interdisciplinary fields of migration studies and cultural studies. She has published widely on the literature of migration in Italy, theories of intermediality, and the visual arts as a form of political resistance. She has also curated art installations on migration, including Nothing is Missing by Mieke Bal, and is currently co-curating the exhibition Sink Without Trace (June-July 2019, P21 Gallery), which focuses on the issue of migrant deaths at sea.

CONTENTS: Mapping Lampedusa: Spaces of (In)visibility in the Borderscape of Europe - From Bare Lives to Subjects of Power: A Counter-Map of Resistance - Border Aesthetics and Aesthetics of Subversion: Counter-Narratives in Migratory Contexts - Death and Memory after the Journey: Counter-Commemoration in Art.

lt;p>«Reframing Migration interrogates the iconic status of Lampedusa as a centerpiece of the dominant European politics of migration and asylum. Examining a diverse array of artistic interventions into the asphyxiating discursive and scopic regime that frames the Mediterranean border spectacle of desperation and mass death, Federica Mazzara reveals a refreshing aesthetics of subversion.» (Nicholas De Genova, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Italian Modernities ; 32
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 388 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Romanistik
Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte Aesthetics • Aesthetics of Subversion • antonello • border • federica • Gordon • Italy • Lampedusa • Mazzara • Migration • Pierpaolo • politics of representation • Reframing • Robert • Spectacle • Subversion
ISBN-10 3-0343-1884-7 / 3034318847
ISBN-13 978-3-0343-1884-6 / 9783034318846
Zustand Neuware
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