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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPeter Lang A&G, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN-139783034318846
eBay Product ID (ePID)2317731412
Product Key Features
Number of Pages260 Pages
Publication NameReframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and the Aesthetics of Subversion
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSociology
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorFederica Mazzara
SeriesItalian Modernities
Dimensions
Item Height225 mm
Item Weight388 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureSwitzerland
Title_AuthorFederica Mazzara