Boletsi / Houwen / Minnaard Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes

From Crisis to Critique
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-36415-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This collection rethinks 
crisis
 in relation to 
critique
 through the prism of various declared ‘crises’ in the Mediterranean: the refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian question, and others. With contributions from cultural, literary, film, and migration studies and sociology, this book shifts attention from Europe to the Mediterranean as a site not only of intersecting crises, but a breeding ground for new cultures of critique, visions of futurity, and radical imaginaries shaped through or against frameworks of crisis. If crisis rhetoric today serves populist, xenophobic or anti-democratic agendas, can the concept 
crisis
 still do the work of 
critique
 or partake in transformative languages by scholars, artists, and activists? Or should we forge different vocabularies to understand present realities? This collection explores alternative mobilizations of 
crisis
 and forms of art, cinema, literature, and cultural practices across the Mediterranean that disengage from dominant crisis narratives. 

Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boletsi, Maria

Houwen, Janna

Minnaard, Liesbeth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Dwelling in Noncrisis (Im)possibility: Transmigrant Collective Action in Greece, 2016.- 3. In the Refugee Machine: The Absence of Crisis and its Critical (Re-)Production.- 4. In Precarity and Prosperity: Refugee Art Going Beyond the Performance of Crisis.- 5. Crisis, Common Sense, and Boredom: A Critique of Neoliberal Hegemony in Turkey.- 6. Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Populism in Spain: Metaphors, Nation-branding, and Social Change.- 7. Palestine and the Migrant Question.- 8. Lampedusa in Europe; or Touching Tales of Vulnerability.- 9. Alternative Hospitalities on the Margins of Europe.- 10. Algeria Time and Water Logic: Image, Archive, Mediterranean Futurity.- 11. Greek Weird Wave; Or, On How to Do A Cinema of Biopolitics.- 12. Moving Images, Moving Archives: Fracturing the Crisis in Interactive Greek Documentaries.- 13. Ice-As-Money and Dreams-As-Ice: Christos Ikonomou’s “The Blood of the Orange” and the Critique of Liquidity.- 14. Rethinking Stasis and Utopianism: Empty Placards and Imaginative Boredom in the Greek Crisis-scape.

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Boletsi is Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Assistant Professor in Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of 
Barbarism and Its Discontents
 (2013) and co-author of 
Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature and the Arts 
(2018).

Janna Houwen is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of 
Film and Video Intermediality: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
 (2017) and co-editor of 
Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines
 (2018).

Liesbeth Minnaard is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of 
New Germans, New Dutch: Literary Interventions
 (2008) and co-editor of
Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism
 (2014).