[PDF] Narratives Of The European Border eBook

Author : Richard Robinson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403987204

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Narratives of the European Border examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative. A work of literary geography, the book draws together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons, comparing how fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative. In Central and Eastern Europe, where empire and nation have frequently been in conflict, the border condition is not anomalous but commonplace. The book concentrates on border transformations in interwar narratives, and also considers more recent responses to the post-Cold War map.

Author : R. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230287867

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Richard Robinson examines the representation of shifting European borders in twentieth-century narrative, drawing together an unusual grouping of texts from different national canons and comparing the various ways that fictional settings transmute European placelessness into narrative.

Author : Mats Andrén
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 178533591X

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The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, and with them comes a sense of uncertainty with respect to liberal democratic traditions: whether treated as abstractions or concrete realities, cultural divisions challenge concepts of legitimacy and political representation as well as the legal bases for citizenship. Thus, an understanding of such borders and their consequences is of utmost importance for promoting the evolution of democracy. Cultural Borders of Europe provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of regions and historical eras, providing essential insights into the state of European intercultural relations today.

Author : Johan Schimanski
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781526171894

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This interdisciplinary volume written by experienced scholars in border studies explores the political role of images and narratives addressing borders, borderscapes and migration. The volume offers new methodologies to approach the political aesthetics of the border and related issues such as borderland identities and border-crossings.

Author : Thanasis Lagios
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319755862

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This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and administration via border technologies, as well as on the centrality of the body as a means and carrier of border within contemporary biopolitical societies. In a second step, the authors proceed to a genealogy of the current discourses regarding the financial and political crisis through a Foucauldian and Lacanian perspective, focusing on the co-articulation of scientific knowledge and biopolitical power in Western societies.

Author : Nick Vaughan-Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192597671

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Since the peak of Europe's so-called 2015 'migration crisis', the dominant governmental response has been to turn to deterrent border security across the Mediterranean and construct border walls throughout the EU. During the same timeframe, EU citizens are widely represented - by politicians, by media sources, and by opinion polls - as fearing a loss of control over national and EU borders. Despite the intensification of EU border security with visibly violent effects, EU citizens are portrayed as 'threatened majorities'. These dynamics beg the question: Why is it that tougher deterrent border security and walling appear to have heightened rather than diminished border anxieties among EU citizens? While the populist mantra of 'taking back control' purports to speak on behalf of EU citizens, little is known about how diverse EU citizens conceptualize, understand, and talk about the so-called 'crisis'. Yet, if social and cultural meanings of 'migration' and 'border security' are constructed intersubjectively and contested politically (Weldes et al. 1999), then EU citizens —as well as governmental elites and people on the move— are significant in shaping dominant framings of and responses to the 'crisis'. This book argues that, in order to address the overarching puzzle, a conceptual and methodological shift is required in the way that border security is understood: a new approach is urgently required that complements 'top-down' analyses of elite governmental practices with 'bottom-up' vernacular studies of how those practices are both reproduced and contested in everyday life.

Author : Julia Sonnevend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 019060431X

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In Stories without Borders, Julia Sonnevend considers the ways in which we recount and remember news stories of historic significance. Focusing on the Berlin Wall and on subsequent retellings of the event in a variety of ways - from Legoland reenactments to slabs of the Berlin Wall installed in global cities - Sonnevend discusses how certain events become built up into global iconic events.

Author : Hamza Safouane
Publisher : Springer-Verlag
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3658274034

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More than just reminding us that migrant voices matter, this book discusses the operationalization and integration of migrant narratives in the overall discourse and proposes a critical reflection on the knowledge production about migration. Hamza Safouane draws on personal testimonies from refugees and asylum seekers who came to Germany during the 2015 'long summer of migration' to examine migratory journeys from an immanent perspective. What analytical, ethical and methodological frameworks can be used to receive the stories of forced migrants and integrate them into a production of knowledge that is too often deaf to their voices?

Author : Katarzyna Stokłosa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315815602

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Borders exist in almost every sphere of life. Initially, borders were established in connection with kingdoms, regions, towns, villages and cities. With nation-building, they became important as a line separating two national states with different "national characteristics," narratives and myths. The term "border" has a negative connotation for being a separating line, a warning signal not to cross a line between the allowed and the forbidden. The awareness of both mental and factual borders in manifold spheres of our life has made them a topic of consideration in almost all scholarly disciplines - history, geography, political science and many others. This book primarily incorporates an interdisciplinary and comparative approach. Historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political science scholars from a diverse range of European universities analyze historical as well as contemporary perceptions and perspectives concerning border regions - inside the EU, between EU and non-EU European countries, and between European and non-European countries.

Author : Nelson González Ortega
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 180073381X

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The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading international scholars of migration from perspectives as varied as literature, linguistics, area and cultural studies, media and communication, visual arts, and film studies. Together, they offer innovative interpretations of migrants and contemporary migration to Europe, enriching today’s political and media landscape, and engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility and rights of both extra-European migrants and European citizens.