Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

Border Aesthetics

Concepts and Intersections

Edited by: Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe

Volume 3 in the series Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785334658

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About this book

Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject’s conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.

Author / Editor information

Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and visiting Professor of Cultural Encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His publications include the co-edited volumes Border Poetics De-limited (2007) and Arctic Discourses (2010), and various essays on border poetics.

Stephen F. Wolfe is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. His publications as co-editor include Border Poetics De-limited (2007) and a special issue of Nordlit entitled “Border Work/Border Aesthetics” (2014), as well as essays focused on the culture of borders.

Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and visiting Professor of Cultural Encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His publications include the co-edited volumes Border Poetics De-limited (2007) and Arctic Discourses (2010), and various essays on border poetics.

Reviews

“This well-structured book offers a refreshing and novel approach to the now fairly crowded field of border studies, advancing an innovative and humanities-facing theoretical framework grounded in aesthetics.” · Hastings Donnan, Queen’s University Belfast

“By pushing aesthetics beyond its canonical topics and giving special attention to the link between aesthetic sensitivity and political context, this volume introduces a groundbreaking perspective and provides an impressive starting point for further wide-ranging investigations.” · Tonino Griffero, University of Rome

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Mireille Rosello and Stephen F. Wolfe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Ecology Mireille Rosello and Timothy Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2 Imaginary Lene M. Johannessen and Ruben Moi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
3 In/visibility Chiara Brambilla and Holger Pötzsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
4 Palimpsests Nadir Kinossian and Urban Wråkberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
5 Sovereignty Reinhold Görling and Johan Schimanski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6 Waiting Henk van Houtum and Stephen F. Wolfe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Intersections: A Conclusion in the Form of a Glossary Johan Schimanski and Stephen F. Wolfe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 188
Keywords: Literary Studies; Mobility Studies; Anthropology (General)

eBook

Published: April 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785334658