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11%OFFSteyn  Juliet  Ed - Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste - 9781780762593 - V9781780762593
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Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste

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Description for Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste Hardback. In a 'Europe without borders' that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling desperately with racism, populated by ghettoized communities, refugee camps and zones of exclusion, two opposing paradigms characterise the discourses of migration: migrants as a problem, a parasite on the nation that disrupts social life, and mobility as the posi Editor(s): Steyn, Juliet. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24 bw integrated. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 29. Weight in Grams: 526.
As migration is described as a problem, mobility is seen as a goal. In a 'Europe without Borders', a place that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling with racism, two opposing paradigms characterise contemporary discussions surrounding migrants. Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste aims to interrogate the familiar debates, evolving new textual and interdisciplinary approaches to European cultural policies and unmasking the assumptions of the essentialist identity politics that go undeclared at the borders of cultural discourse. Twelve leading figures in post-colonial and translation studies, political philosophy, art, radical aesthetics, policy-making and sociology, reflect on the political ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780762593
SKU
V9781780762593
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Ref
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About Steyn Juliet Ed
Juliet Steyn is Senior Tutor for Research at the Centre for Cultural Policy and Management, City University, London. Nadja Stamselberg is lecturer in Cultural Studies Centre,Regents University, London.

Reviews for Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste
This book breaks with any conventional notion of borders. It offers borders between and among people, among things, affects and truths; borders in space, in memory, in travel bags and personalities; borders proliferating, challenged and sustained. Artists in the midst of this, mediators across and inside a contested, creative but... violent and promiscuous cartography of European instability. Uncomfortable at home, ... Read more

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