Moving Images : Mediating Migration as Crisis / Krista Lynes, Tyler Morgenstern, Ian Alan Paul

• HerausgeberIn: Lynes, Krista; Morgenstern, Tyler; Paul, Ian Alan
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Medienwissenschaft
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of movement in Europe. Indeed, the mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and artworks gathered in Moving Images interrogate the mediation of migration and refugeeism in the contemporary European conjuncture, asking how images, discourses, and data are involved in shaping the visions and experience of migration in increasingly global contexts.

»Vor dem Hintergrund, dass eine veränderte Wahrnehmung von Migration eine Revision der eigenen Haltung ermöglicht, ist die Publikation über die bild- und kunstwissenschaftlichen Ergebnisse hinaus von großer sozialer und politischer Relevanz.« Tanja-Bianca Schmidt, www.sehepunkte.de, 20/10 (2020) O-Ton: »›The aesthetic‹ and ›the political‹ are not opposed« - the editors in an interview with L.I.S.A Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung am 25.08.2020.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 9 Preface 11 Through the Black Country, or, The Sources of the Thames Around the Great Shires of Lower England and Down the Severn River to the Atlantic Ocean 17 Introduction 27 SeaPath 50 The Literal, at Sea 55 A Sensible Politics. Image Operations of Europe's Refugee Crisis 57 Controlling the Crisis 71 Forensic Oceanography 95 Reframing the Border 127 Migrant Images 147 Listing 165 The List 169 The Adouaba Project 176 "The Adouaba Project" 183 Unsanctioned Agency 189 The Calais Crisis 211 SOPHIA 229 Solidarity and the Aporia of "We" 245 Either You Get it Or You Don't 263