Topographies of "Borderland Schengen"
Author | : Jan Kühnemund |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-03-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783839442081 |
ISBN-13 | : 3839442087 |
Rating | : 4/5 (087 Downloads) |
Download or read book Topographies of "Borderland Schengen" written by Jan Kühnemund and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing recent documentary films dealing with undocumented migration at the Schengen Area's fringes and against the backdrop of what has been termed the `European refugee crisis', Jan Kühnemund investigates the interface between migration discourses and image discourses. As an analytical framework, he conceptualises `Borderland Schengen' as a visual-political transnational space emerging from the interplay of migration movements and border policies. Putting the spaces and iconologies of `illegal' migration under scrutiny and aiming at establishing their protagonists as subjects, Kühnemund in this regard reads the films as attempts at discursive participation as an aesthetic political practice.