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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822451103321

Titolo

Border aesthetics : concepts and intersections / / edited by Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78920-053-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Time and the World : Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations ; ; Volume 3

Disciplina

320.1/2

Soggetti

Cross-cultural studies

Borderlands - Philosophy

Boundaries - Philosophy

Human geography

Political anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Stephen F. Wolfe and Mireille Rosello -- Ecology / Mireille Rosello and Timothy Saunders -- Imaginary / Lene M. Johannessen and Ruben Moi -- In/visibility / Chiara Brambilla and Holger Pötzsch -- Palimpsests / Nadir Kinossian and Urban Wråkberg -- Sovereignty / Reinhold Görling and Johan Schimanski -- Waiting / Henk van Houtum and Stephen F. Wolfe -- Intersections : a conclusion in the form of a glossary / Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe.

Sommario/riassunto

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.