New UniGR-CBS thematic issue release: The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis

This collection of essays pays attention to the biopolitical intricacies surrounding borders, with a particular focus on the Global North, encompassing North America and Europe. It dwells on the growing importance of biopolitical perspectives in Cultural Border Studies and aims at re-thinking Europe and the Americas through the crises and challenges they pose. By scrutinizing biopolitics, the negotiation of crises, and the state of exception in literature, the arts, and political discourse, this thematic issue probes the multifaceted dimensions of biopolitical control, highlighting the interplay between state authority and the lives of those impacted by these regulations. Border biopolitics then emerges as a complex nexus of authority, surveillance, control, and management of human lives on, at, and across borders.
 

Contents

• Introduction: Borders, Biopolitics, and Crises in Europe and North America (Astrid M. Fellner, Eva Nossem)
• Artworks on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Architectural Responses Defying the Limit (Imen Helali)
• Resistance and Remembrance in Border Art: A Response to EU Border Violence in Tunisia (Anja Benedikt)
• No Room for Bare Life on Stage: The Biopolitics of Syrian Migrant Artists (Ruba Totah)
• Necropolitics at Sea: A Reading from Mediterranean Border Fiction (Silvia Ruzzi)
• Dismantling the Binary Opposition Between Reservation and City in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God (Svitlana Kot)
• Reassessing the Periphery, Challenging the Re-Politicizing Struggles (Marco Mogiani)
• Of Saints, Saviors, and Smugglers: The capitane in the Mediterranean and the Border-Gender-Nexus (Eva Nossem)

Bibliographical information

Astrid M. Fellner, Eva Nossem, Tetyana Ostapchuk (ed.) (2023) : The Biopolitics of Borders in Times of Crisis. Borders in Perspective 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10523816. Download

Editors

Tetyana Ostapchuk
Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University