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Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis

Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis

Hardcover

Series: Challenging Migration Studies

General SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 178661023X
ISBN13: 9781786610232
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 11 2020
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Since 2015, the 'refugee crisis' is possibly the most photographed humanitarian crises in history. Photographs taken, for instance, in Lesvos, Greece, and Bodrum, Turkey, were instrumental in generating waves of public support for, and populist opposition to welcoming refugees in Europe. But photographs do not circulate in a vacuum; this book explores the visual economy of the 'refugee crisis, ' showing how the reproduction of images is structured by, and secures hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and 'race, ' essential to the functioning of bordered nation-states. Taking photography not only as the object of research, but innovating the method of photographìa-- the material trace of writing/grafì with light/phos-- this book urges us to view images and their reproduction critically. Part theoretical text, part visual essay, Reproducing Refugees vividly shows how institutional violence underpins both the spectacularity and the banality of 'crisis.'

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