This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of images and representation in different borderscapes. It provides fresh insight into the ways in which borders, borderscapes and migration are imagined and narrated by offering new ways to approach the political aesthetics of the border. The case studies in the volume contribute to the methodological renewal of border studies and present ways of discussing cultural representations of borders and related processes. The case studies address the role of borders in narrative and images in literary texts, political and popular imagery, surveillance data, video art and survivor testimonies in a highly comparative range of geographical contexts ranging from northern Europe, via Mediterranean and Mexican–US borderlands to Chinese borderlands. The disciplinary approaches include critical theory, literary studies, social anthropology, media studies and political geography. The volume argues that borderlands and border-crossings (such as those by migrants) are present in public discourse and more private, everyday experience. This volume addresses their mediation through various stories, photographs, films and other forms. It suggests that narratives and images are part of the borderscapes in which border-crossings and bordering processes take place, contributing to the negotiation of borders in the public sphere. As the case studies show, narratives and images enable identifying various top-down and bottom-up discourses to be heard and make visible different minority groups and constituencies.
págs. 23-42
Horizontal vertigo and psychasthenia: border figures of the fantastic
págs. 43-62
Capturing clouds: imagin(in)g the materiality of digital networks
págs. 65-82
In/visibilities beyond the spectacularisation: young people, subjectivity and revolutionary border imaginations in the Mediterranean borderscape
págs. 83-104
From heroism to grotesque: the invisibility of border-related trauma narratives in the Finnish–Russian borderlands
págs. 105-126
Expanded border imaginaries and aligned border narratives: ethnic minorities and localities in China’s border encounters with Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam
págs. 127-148
Borders: the topos of/for a post-politics of images?
págs. 151-167
Some cunning passages in border-crossing narratives: seen and unseen migrants
págs. 168-186
Borderscapes of Calais: images of the 'jungle' in "Breach" by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes
págs. 187-205
Seasons of migration to the North: borders and images in migration narratives published in Norwegian
págs. 206-224
Performance of memory: testimonies of survival and rescue at Europe’s border
págs. 225-241
Epilogue: border images and narratives: paradoxes, spheres, aesthetics
págs. 242-251
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