Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections

Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections

Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections

Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789200539
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/12/2018
Series: Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations , #3
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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 Pötzsch

Chapter 4. Palimpsests
Nadir Kinossian and Urban Wråkberg

Chapter 5. Sovereignty
Reinhold Görling 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

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