The culture of migration : politics, aesthetics and histories / edited by Sten Pultz Moslund, Anne Ring Petersen and Moritz Schramm.

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"Grounded in both the historical longevity of cultural migration and its particular qualities in contemporary society, the essays that comprise The Culture of Migration: Politics, Aesthetics and Histories, take a broad view of the negotiations between subjects in movement and the geopolitical terrains they traverse. The volume never forgets the politicised dimensions of migration and the sometimes difficult experiences of individual migrants, yet the essays are wonderfully hopeful of the power of the arts to provide spaces in which identities and meanings can coalesce and be understood across differences. This is an empowering book that brings a range of voices and practices together to rethink the legacies of the past and the possibilities of our futures. In this careful orchestration of ideas and images, the editors of The Culture of Migration have managed to redraw the lines of politicised aesthetics in new and nuanced configurations. The Culture of Migration explores the ways in which culture and the arts have been transformed by migration in recent decades, and in turn how these cultural and aesthetic transformations have contributed to shaping our identities, politics, and societies."

Introduction / Sten Pultz Moslund, Anne Ring Petersen and Moritz Schramm. -- 1. A matter of edge: border vs. boundary at La Frontera / Edward S. Casey. -- 2. Displacement, asylum and narratives of nation: giving voice to refugees in the film La Forteresse / Roger Bromley. -- 3. Old and new xenophobia / Tabish Khair. -- 4. Four theses for an 'audit of culture' / Mark Terkessidis. -- 5. 'Home is where the struggle is': migration, form and politics / Moritz Schramm. -- 6. Mapping / assuming / exhibiting / activating the perspective of migration / Nanna Heidenreich. -- 7. Art from Asia: aesthetic cosmopolitanism and the world of art / Nikos Papastergiadis. -- 8. In your face: migratory aesthetics / Mieke Bal. -- 9. Taking the strangeness out of strangers: cinematic strategies for emphasising sameness over difference in multi-ethnic Europe / Eva Jørholt. -- 10. The un-doing of hard borders: art at the US wall against Mexico / Mary Watkins. -- 11. Migratory aesthetics and the politics of irregular migration: a case study of Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats / Anne Ring Petersen. -- 12. A migrant aesthetics through the phenomenality of place / Sten Pultz Moslund. -- 13. Moments of significance: artists of colour in European theatre / Azadeh Sharifı. -- 14. Ghosts of place: displacement and identity in the work of Ori Gersht / Alexandra Stara. -- 15. Staging memories / Chu YinHua. -- 16. My home away from home: artistic reflections on immigration to Germany / Burcu Dogramaci. -- 17. The migrating earth: cinematic images of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake / Mads Anders Baggesgaard. -- 18. Paying tribute: migrant memorial walls and the 'nation of immigrants' / Eureka Henrich.

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