Tuesday, February 27, 2024

NEW PUBLICATIONS


Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi (eds.) 

Doing Digital Migration Studies: Theories and Practices of the Everyday

Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

 

Doing Digital Migration present a comprehensive entry point to the variety of theoretical debates, methodological interventions, political discussions and ethical debates around migrant forms of belonging as articulated through digital practices. Digital technologies impact upon everyday migrant lives, while vice versa migrants play a key role in technological developments – be it when negotiating the communicative affordances of platforms and devices, as consumers of particular commercial services such as sending remittances, as platform gig workers or test cases for new advanced surveillance technologies. With its international scope, this anthology invites scholars to pluralize understandings of ‘the migrant’ and ‘the digital’. The anthology is organized in five different sections: Creative Practices; Digital Diasporas and Placemaking; Affect and Belonging; Visuality and digital media and Datafication, Infrastructuring, and Securitization. These sections are dedicated to emerging key topics and debates in digital migration studies, and sections are each introduced by international experts.
Keywords: Migration, belonging, digital practices, digital migration studies, diaspora
DOI: 10.5117/9789463725774
For individual contributions see also: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.11895524

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

 NEW PUBLICATION


Creating Europe from the Margins.
Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe

 

Edited By Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, Sandra Ponzanesi
Routledge, August 2023
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269748

 



 

 

BOOK ABSTRACT
This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global North and the Global South as well as internal regional differentiation within Europe itself. In doing so, the volume stresses the need to consider Europe from critical interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and contemporary issues of racism and colonialism.
While recent discussions of migration into ‘Fortress Europe’ seem to assume that Europe has clearly demarcated geographic, political and cultural boundaries, this book argues that the reality is more complex. The book explores margins conceptually and positions margins and centres as open to negotiation and contestation and characterized by ambiguity. 
As such, margins can be contextualized in relation to hierarchies within Europe, with different processes involved in creating boundaries and borders between different kinds of Europes and Europeans. Deploying case studies from different places, such as Iceland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Sicily, European colonies in the Caribbean and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors analyse how different geopolitical hierarchies intersect with racialized subject 
positions of diverse people living in Europe, while also exploring 
issues of gender, class, sexuality, religion and nationality. Some 
chapters draw attention to the fortification of Europe’s ‘borderland,’ while others focus on internal hierarchies within Europe, critiquing the meaning of spatial boundaries in an increasingly digitalized Europe. In doing so, the chapters interrogate the hierarchies at play in the processes of being and becoming ‘European’ and the ongoing impacts of race and colonialism.
This timely and thought-provoking collection will be of considerable significance to those in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in Europe.

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TOC

Creating Europe from the Margins
Introduction
By Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, Sandra Ponzanesi
chapter 2|16 pages

Articulating Europe from the Sephardic Margin
Restoring Citizenship for Expulsed Jews, and Not Muslims, in Spain?
By Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias Baglietto
chapter 3|18 pages

Racist and Imperial Genealogies in LGBT-free Zones and Struggles over Europe in Poland
By Paweł Lewicki

chapter 4|18 pages
‘From Nowhere to Nowhere’ – Mapping Trajectories of Belonging within the Post-Yugoslav Field
By Milica Trakilović

chapter 5|15 pages
A Crossroads of the World on the Margins of Europe
Migration and Sicilian Liminality
By Antonio Sorge

chapter 6|16 pages
Digital Media and Migration
Reflections from the Southern Margins of Europe
By Claudia Minchilli, Sandra Ponzanesi

chapter 7|17 pages
Gay Bod
Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride after Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK and Europe
By Catherine Baker, Michael Howcroft

chapter 8|15 pages
Marginalized Bodies in Caribbean Europe
Between Vital Inequalities and Health (Im)mobilities
By Corinna Di Stefano, Fabio Santos, Manuela Boatcă

chapter 9|17 pages
Marketing Marginality
Creating Iceland as a White Privileged Destination
By Kristín Loftsdóttir

chapter 10|17 pages
Making Europe from Below
Intra EU-Migration and Mobilities Connecting the Margins
By Ignacio Fradejas-García, José Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers

chapter 11|19 pages
When the Margins Enter the Centre
The Documentary Along the Borders of Turkey and Its YouTube Comments as Conflicting Constructions of Europeanity
By Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki
Open access chapter, downloadable at:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/.../margins-enter-centre...

chapter 12|16 pages
Beating the Border
Playing with Migrant Experiences and Borderveillant Spectatorship in Channel 4's Smuggled (2019)
By Lennart Soberon, Kevin Smets

Discount available: 20% Discount Available - enter the code EFL03 at checkout*

 

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH: Postcolonial Publics

 

Online Book Launch: Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe


9 May 2023, 17.00-19.00
Postcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe
Edited by Bolette B. Blaagaard, Sabrina Marchetti, Sandra Ponzanesi and Shaul Bassi
Published by Edizioni Ca' Foscari/Venice University Press, 2023

 

coverPostcolonial Publics: Art and Citizen Media in Europe presents a collection of sixteen chapters that explore the themes of how migrants, refugees and citizens express and share their political and social causes and experiences through art and media. These expressions, which we term ‘citizen media’, arguably become a platform for postcolonial intellectuals as the studies pursued in this volume investigate the different ways in which previously excluded social groups regain public voice. The volume strives to understand the different articulations of migrants’, refugees’, and citizens’ struggle against increasingly harsh European politics that allow them to achieve and empower political subjectivity in a mediated and creative space. In this way, the contributions in this volume present case studies of citizen media in the form of ‘activistic art’ or ‘artivism’ (Trandafoiu, Ruffini, Cazzato & Taronna, Koobak & Tali, Negrón-Muntaner), activism through different kinds of technological media (Chouliaraki and Al-Ghazzi, Jedlowski), such as documentaries and film (Denić), podcasts, music and soundscapes (Romeo and Fabbri, Western, Lazzari, Huggan), and activisms through writings from journalism to fiction (Longhi, Concilio, Festa, De Capitani). The volume argues that citizen media go hand in hand with postcolonial critique because of their shared focus on the deconstruction and decolonisation of Western logics and narratives. Moreover, both question the concept of citizen and of citizenship as they relate to the nation-state and explores the power of media as a tool for participation as well as an instrument of political strength. The book forwards postcolonial artivism and citizen media as a critical framework to understand the refugee and migrant situations in contemporary Europe.

Speakers: 

  • Bolette B. Blaagaard
  • Sabrina Marchetti
  • Sandra Ponzanesi
  • Shaul Bassi


The book launch will feature contributions by:

  • Omar Al-Ghazzi
  • Carmen Concilio
  • Nadia Denic
  • Graham Huggan
  • Gabriele Lazzari
  • Alessandro Jedlowski
  • Frances Négron-Muntaner
  • Caterina Romeo
  • Ruxandra Trandafoiu
  • Tom Western

For the chapter overview and to download the PDF see Here

Please register: Here