
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Berghahn Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2017
Book
Hardback
188 pages
978-1-78533-464-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Library binding
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 5 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-464-1 (9781785334641)
DOI
10.3167/9781785334641
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Persons
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.
Content
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 Poetzsch
Chapter 4. Palimpsests
Nadir Kinossian and Urban Wrakberg
Chapter 5. Sovereignty
Reinhold Goerling 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
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 Poetzsch
Chapter 4. Palimpsests
Nadir Kinossian and Urban Wrakberg
Chapter 5. Sovereignty
Reinhold Goerling 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