Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-09270-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 212 g

This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and administration via border technologies, as well as on the centrality of the body as a means and carrier of border within contemporary biopolitical societies. In a second step, the authors proceed to a genealogy of the current discourses regarding the financial and political crisis through a Foucauldian and Lacanian perspective, focusing on the co-articulation of scientific knowledge and biopolitical power in Western societies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lagios, Thanasis

Lekka, Vasia

Panoutsopoulos, Grigoris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Within the Walls: Transformations of Migration Control and Management1. Introduction: Within the Walls  2. “Migrants” vis-à-vis “Refugees”: Towards a “Rationalisation” of Migration Control and Management3. Opening and Closing Borders: Capitalism Is Speeding Up4. Borders’ Diffusion as a Response to the “Humanist Crisis”: Towards a Military-Humanitarian Nexus5. Borders and Bodies in Twenty-First-Century Biopolitical Societies: The Migrant’s Body as Carrier of the Border6. Conclusion: Facing a Circulus Vitiosus?Part II: Humanist or Capitalist Crisis? Notes and Remarks concerning a False Dilemma7. Exergum8. Discourses on Crisis and Critical Discourse9. The Man Without Qualities in a Universe Full of Quantities10. Genealogy and the Question of the Present: A Conclusion?8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Thanasis Lagios is Teaching Assistant at the University of Athens, Greece.Vasia Lekka is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece.Grigoris Panoutsopoulos is Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece.