Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-75585-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 323 g

Uncovers multiple dimensions of the technoscientific mechanisms of control of immigration and re-reads them through the prism of the 2008 crisis
Juxtaposes the lived experience of migration, i.e. the body against the border, with and its narrative/discourse in the form of a geneaology of crisis
Draws on several theoretical traditions to decide whether the current migration crisis is in fact a crisis or something endemic to capitalism

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lagios, Thanasis

Panoutsopoulos, Grigoris

Lekka, Vasia

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Within the walls.- 2. “Migrants” vis-à-vis “refugees”: Towards a “rationalisation” of migration control and management.- 3. Opening and closing borders: Capitalism is speeding up.- 4. Borders’ diffusion as a response to the “humanist crisis”: Towards a military-humanitarian nexus.- 5. Borders and bodies in twenty-first-century biopolitical societies: The migrant’s body as carrier of the border.- 6. Conclusion: Facing a circulus vitiosus?.- 7. Exergum.- 8. Discourses on Crisis and Critical Discourse.- 9. The Man Without Qualities in a Universe Full of Quantities.- 10. Genealogy and the Question of the Present: A 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.