Research Catalog

Title

Border images, border narratives : the political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings / edited by Johan Schimanski and Jopi Nyman.

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• Schimanski, Johan
• Nyman, Jopi, 1966-

Description

xi, 262 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

"This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and narratives in different borderscapes. Written by experienced scholars in the field, Border images, border narratives provides fresh insight into how borders, borderscapes, and migration are imagined and narrated in public and private spheres. Offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border and its ambiguities, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the methodological renewal of border studies and presents ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. Influenced by the thinking of philosopher Jacques Rancière, this timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography"--

Series Statement

Rethinking borders

Uniform Title

Rethinking borders.

Subject

• Boundaries > Political aspects
• Boundaries (Philosophy)
• Boundaries in art
• Boundaries in literature
• Boundaries in mass media

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : images and narratives on the border -- Part I. The Border (Forms) : 1. Phenomenology of the liminal -- 2. Horizontal vertigo and psychasthenia : border figures of the fantastic -- Part II. Living with the Border (Zones) : 3. Capturing clouds : imagin(in)g the materiality of digital networks -- 4 In/visibilities beyond the spectacularisation: young people, subjectivity, and revolutionary border Imaginations in the Mediterranean borderscape -- 5 From heroism to grotesque: the invisibility of border-related trauma narratives in the Finnish-Russian borderlands 6. Expanded border imaginaries and aligned border narratives: ethnic minorities and localities in China's border encounters with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam -- Part III. Crossing the Border (Migrations) : 7. Borders: tshe topos of/for a post-politics of images? -- 8. Some cunning passages in border-crossing narratives : seen and unseen migrants -- 9. Borderscapes of Calais : images of 'The Jungle' in Breace -- 10. Seasons of migration to the North: borders and images in migration narratives published in Norwegian -- 11. Performance of memory : testimonies of survival and rescue at Europe's border --Epilogue : border images and narratives: paradoxes, spheres, aesthetics.

Call Number

JFE 21-7635

ISBN

• 9781526146267
• 1526146266

OCLC

1230514627

Title

Border images, border narratives : the political aesthetics of boundaries and crossings / edited by Johan Schimanski and Jopi Nyman.

Publisher

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rethinking borders

Rethinking borders.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Schimanski, Johan, editor.

Nyman, Jopi, 1966- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Schimanski, Johan. Border Images, Border Narratives. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021 9781526146274 (OCoLC)1236266714

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7635