Crisis, Risks and New Regionalism in Europe

Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-3-86821-715-5
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 364 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 1480 mm x 2100 mm, Gewicht: 601 g

Reihe: CHAT - Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today

This collection of essays explores the idea of the efficacy, limitations and future of Cultural Studies as a theoretical and methodological approach to the analysis of recent crisis phenomena in Europe. The volume spans a wide range of topics, including: theoretical and critical approaches to the stability of the EU as a political and economic union of its 28 member
states; the (not only) recent flow of refugees into Europe and other countries, and the refugee tragedies off the coast of Lampedusa; the resurgence of far-right, anti-Islam political groups throughout Europe; the negotiation of affect and crisis phenomena in literary texts; and the question of media and refugees. These and other pressing issues are addressed and discussed from a variety of historical, political, pedagogical, gender, media and aesthetic perspectives, as encompassed in Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literatures.


The aim of the volume is to arrive at a new working definition of Cultural Studies – making culture political again – in conjunction with Postcolonial and Gender Studies within a European context. Thus, the papers offer a fresh approach for a discussion of crisis phenomena in the context of complex encounters and conflicts, new regionalisms, emergency diasporas, gender studies, and neo-capitalism/neo-colonialism within a German-Italian framework and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sandten, Cecile

Gualtieri, Claudia

Pedretti, Roberto

Kronshage, Eike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements             9

Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, Eike Kronshage
Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe:

Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands             11

Cultural Studies: General Theory, Politics and PedagogyLawrence Grossberg
Making Culture Matter, Making Culture Political             27

Sebastian Berg
Against 'Populism': Protest and Power in a Postpolitical Age             47

Roberto Pedretti
Intellectuals, where are you?

The Crisis of Europe and the Voice of the Intellectuals             61

Federico Tomasello
Urban Riots and "Paper Riots":

Elements for a Critical Discourse Analysis             75

Claudia Gualtieri
Teaching as Cultural Practice:

The Pedagogy of Cultural Studies in Italy             91

Marta Baraldi
The Pedagogy of Borders: Teaching and Learning

Between the Classroom and the Streets             107

Cultures of Precariousness, Borders, Maps and MediaMala Pandurang
Unmapping Maps: Borders, Territories and the Crisis of Identity             119

Vivien Sommer, Andreas Bischof, Lisa Hübner
Mediatized Migration in Handcrafted Objects: Media Solutions

Through the Eyes and Hands of Refugees in Chemnitz, Germany             133

Stefania Gavin, Simona Taliani, Eleonora Voli
Archives of the Present: How to Represent

Nigerian Motherhood in Italy             149

Alexander Bergmann
Quality of Life in Times of Population Decline

and Economically Challenging Conditions:

What Can We Learn from Civil Society? The Chemnitz Example             165

Henriette Dausend
Street Art: Raising Social Awareness, Globally?             179

Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
'Crisis of Culture': Towards a Transcultural Africa-Europe Paroemiology             195

Writing the Emergency/Writing CrisisLidia De Michelis
The Border Spectacle and the Dramaturgy of Hope
in Anders Lustgarten's
Lampedusa
            219

Cecile Sandten
Stuck in Limbo? The Politics of Departure, Arrival and Acculturation
in "Fictions of Asylum"

for Children and Young Adults             237

Lidia De Michelis
Challenging Dominant Discourses of Risk and Crisis:

Verbatim Drama and the 2011 British Riots             255

Mandy Beck
Reading Crisis Through Affect: Sarah Hall's

How to Paint a Dead Man
(2009)             273

Andrei Ionescu
Narrative Strategies of Representing the Environmental
Crisis in Ian McEwan's
Solar
            287

Creative Writing in/and CrisisAlecia McKenzie
Gone to the Dogs (Madame)             305

Raj R. Rao
Manakarnika Ghat             319

Thaer Ayoub
?????? /Waiting             331

PostscriptLawrence Grossberg
The Time for/of Cultural Studies             353


Notes on Contributors             357

Über Autor(innen)

Gualtieri, Claudia
Claudia Gualtieri is assistant professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Milan.

Pedretti, Roberto
Roberto Pedretti is an independent scholar in the fields of Cultural and Subcultural Studies.

Sandten, Cecile
Cecile Sandten is Chair of English Literatures at the Chemnitz University of Technology.

Kronshage, Eike
Eike Kronshage is assistant professor of English Literatures at the Chemnitz University of Technology.