Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.
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Organized around six key ideas-ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting-the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Mireille Rosello and Stephen F. Wolfe Chapter 1. Ecology Mireille Rosello and Timothy Saunders Chapter 2. Imaginary Lene M. Johannessen and Ruben Moi Chapter 3. In/visibility Chiara Brambilla and Holger Pötzsch Chapter 4. Palimpsests Nadir Kinossian and Urban Wråkberg Chapter 5. Sovereignty Reinhold Görling and Johan Schimanski Chapter 6. Waiting Henk van Houtum and Stephen F. Wolfe Intersections: A Conclusion in the Form of a Glossary Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe Index
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“This well-structured book offers a refreshing and novel approach to the now fairly crowded field of border studies, advancing an innovative and humanities-facing theoretical framework grounded in aesthetics.” · Hastings Donnan, Queen’s University Belfast “By pushing aesthetics beyond its canonical topics and giving special attention to the link between aesthetic sensitivity and political context, this volume introduces a groundbreaking perspective and provides an impressive starting point for further wide-ranging investigations.” · Tonino Griffero, University of Rome
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781785334641
Publisert
2017-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
188

Biographical note

Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and visiting Professor of Cultural Encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His publications include the co-edited volumes Border Poetics De-limited (2007) and Arctic Discourses (2010), and various essays on border poetics.