Crisis, Risks and New Regionalism in Europe
Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands
Published on 22. August 2017
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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.
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.
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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 Pedagogy
Lawrence 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 Media
Mala 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 Crisis
Lidia 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 Crisis
Alecia McKenzie
Gone to the Dogs (Madame) 305
Raj R. Rao
Manakarnika Ghat 319
Thaer Ayoub
?????? /Waiting 331
Postscript
Lawrence Grossberg
The Time for/of Cultural Studies 353
Notes on Contributors 357
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 Pedagogy
Lawrence 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 Media
Mala 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 Crisis
Lidia 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 Crisis
Alecia McKenzie
Gone to the Dogs (Madame) 305
Raj R. Rao
Manakarnika Ghat 319
Thaer Ayoub
?????? /Waiting 331
Postscript
Lawrence Grossberg
The Time for/of Cultural Studies 353
Notes on Contributors 357