Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings

Welcome to the next BOMOCULT Global Borderings Webinar 

Book presentation and launch by Johan Schimanski, Jopi Nyman et al. Border Images, Border Narratives: The Political Aesthetics of Boundaries and Crossings (Manchester UP 2021).

This timely volume argues that narrated and mediated images of borders and borderscapes are central to the political process, as they contribute to the public negotiation of borders and address issues such as the in/visiblity of migrants and the formation of alternative borderscapes. The contributions analyse narratives and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, border art, and documentaries, as well as problems related to borderland identities, migration, and trauma. The case studies provide a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from Northern Europe and Britain, via Mediterranean and Mexican-USA borderlands, to Chinese borderlands from the perspectives of critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies, and political geography. See also: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146267/

Meeting ID: 681 7855 8874

Passcode: 821455