'As migration is described as a problem, mobility is seen as a goal. In a "Europe without Borders", a place that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling with racism, two opposing paradigms characterise contemporary discussions surrounding migrants. Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste aims to interrogate the familiar debates, evolving new textual and interdisciplinary approaches to European cultural policies and unmasking the assumptions of the essentialist identity politics that go undeclared at the borders of cultural discourse. Twelve leading figures in post-colonial and translation studies, political philosophy, art, radical aesthetics, policy-making and sociology, reflect on the political and cultural meanings of migration; their arguments framed by artworks that provide glimpses of cross-cultural encounters. Essays - including a meditation on "wasted lives" by internationally renowned academic Zygmunt Bauman - explore the challenges of migration, history and integration and attempt to develop radical new figurations of migrant identity, underlining the necessity of an imaginative reach towards "The Other".
This book brings together the roles of translation and of art in the central metaphor of waste - the trail of rubbish left behind by mechanisms of mobility; the excised narratives of wasted identities and people.' - from book flap

Includes a bibliography and an index.
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Onsite

Location code
REF.STJ4
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2014

No of pages

298

ISBN / ISSN

9781780762593

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

Introduction: Migrants, Waste and Belonging: Myth and History - Juliet STEYN, Nadja STAMSELBERG

Wasted Lives: Modernity's Collateral Casualties - Zygmunt BAUMAN

The Role of Art in Imagining Multicultural Communities - Nikos PAPASTERGIADIS

Visions of Europe: The Ethics Behind the Aesthetics - Nadja STAMSELBERG

In the Hinterlands: Identty, Migration and Memory - Juliet STEYN

Transcultural Translation: Let's Engage? - Karen SEAGO

When Art Migrates: Biennales and Itinerancy - Anthony GARDNER, Charles GREEN

Global Capitalism, Racism and Contemporary Art - Marina GRZINIC

The Life Boundary of Art - Richard APPIGNANESI

Network Economies of Waste - Peter MORTENBOCK

Multicultural Spectres in the Crisis of European Citizenship - Sandro MEZZADRA

Foraging for Love - Christian SORHAUG

Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste
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Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste