Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe, 1st ed. 2018
Langue : Anglais
Auteurs : Lagios Thanasis, Lekka Vasia, Panoutsopoulos Grigoris
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.
1. Introduction: Within the walls.- 2. “Migrants” vis-à-vis “refugees”: Towards a “rationalisation” of migration control and management.- 3. Opening and closing borders: Capitalism is speeding up.- 4. Borders’ diffusion as a response to the “humanist crisis”: Towards a military-humanitarian nexus.- 5. Borders and bodies in twenty-first-century biopolitical societies: The migrant’s body as carrier of the border.- 6. Conclusion: Facing a circulus vitiosus?.- 7. Exergum.- 8. Discourses on Crisis and Critical Discourse.- 9. The Man Without Qualities in a Universe Full of Quantities.- 10. Genealogy and the Question of the Present: A Conclusion?
Thanasis Lagios is Teaching Assistant at the University of Athens, Greece.
Vasia Lekka is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece.
Grigoris Panoutsopoulos is Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece.
Uncovers multiple dimensions of the technoscientific mechanisms of control of immigration and re-reads them through the prism of the 2008 crisis Juxtaposes the lived experience of migration, i.e. the body against the border, with and its narrative/discourse in the form of a geneaology of crisis Draws on several theoretical traditions to decide whether the current migration crisis is in fact a crisis or something endemic to capitalism
Date de parution : 05-2018
Ouvrage de 144 p.
14.8x21 cm
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