From: "Boletsi, M." <M.Boletsi(a)hum.leidenuniv.nl>
To: "mgsa-l(a)uci.edu" <mgsa-l(a)uci.edu>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:14:42 +0000
Subject: [MGSA-L] NEW BOOK PUBLICATION: Languages of Resistance,
Transformation and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to
Critique
Dear colleagues,
I want to bring the following edited volume to your attention, just
published by Palgrave and edited by Janna Houwen, Liesbeth Minnaard and
myself.
The book addresses contexts across the Mediterranean with roughly one third
of the essays focusing on Greek case studies.
It is part of the Palgrave series in *Globalization, Culture and Society*,
and includes essays by Jonas Taudal Bækgaard, Maria Boletsi, Ipek
Celik-Rappas & Diego Benegas Loyo, Karen Emmerich, Begüm Özden Fırat,
Olivia Harrison, Janna Houwen, Nataša Kovačević, Megan C. MacDonald, Geli
Mademli, Liesbeth Minnaard, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Pablo Valdivia.
The *Introduction* is available for free download (*OPEN ACCESS*) here:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-36415-1
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-36415-1?fbclid=IwAR353daC74gKagr8qwbS6PBI4Sg4l2VbzWgvZujVFTz9kfexDSr9AO-euoU>
The book can be ordered as e-book or hardcopy: we would be grateful if you
could alert your libraries and ask them to include it in their collections!
You can browse through the table of contents here
<https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030364144?utm_campaign=sl-buybox_bookPage_print&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=springerlink#otherversion=9783030364144>
*Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean
Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique*
*Ed. By Maria Boletsi, Janna Houwen and Liesbeth Minnaard. Palgrave
Macmillan, 2020*
This collection rethinks *crisis* in relation to *critique* through the
prism of various declared ‘crises’ in the Mediterranean: the refugee
crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the Arab Spring, the
Palestinian question, and others. With contributions from cultural,
literary, film, and migration studies and sociology, this book shifts
attention from Europe to the Mediterranean as a site not only of
intersecting crises, but a breeding ground for new cultures of critique,
visions of futurity, and radical imaginaries shaped through or against
frameworks of crisis. If crisis rhetoric today serves populist, xenophobic
or anti-democratic agendas, can the concept *crisis* still do the work of
*critique* or partake in transformative languages by scholars, artists, and
activists? Or should we forge different vocabularies to understand present
realities? This collection explores alternative mobilizations of *crisis* and
forms of art, cinema, literature, and cultural practices across the
Mediterranean that disengage from dominant crisis narratives.
*From the reviews
<https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030364144?utm_campaign=sl-buybox_bookPage_print&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=springerlink#reviews>
on
the** we**bsite:*
“The book offers a keen and engaging account of the ways in which the term
‘crisis’ might be involved in critical vocabularies that seek to challenge
pervasive frameworks of crisis and engender spaces of alternative imageries
and imaginaries. Its focus on the Mediterranean crisis-scapes is suggestive
in its capacity to invigorate situated critical thought on languages of
resistance and futurity. Drawing attention to the production of critical
moments of/in intersecting crises, the essays in this volume offer valuable
and compelling ways of rethinking what is at stake in the visualization,
rhetoricity and affectivity of such languages as they play out in
literature, film, art, and other forms of cultural production.”
*Athena Athanasiou, Professor of Social Anthropology, Panteion University,
Greece, and author of Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the
Women in Black (2017)*
“This is an exciting and original volume that asks timely questions about
crisis and critique around the Mediterranean. Vigorously engaging with
concrete fields and works in the humanities and the social sciences, it
also upholds sound theorising. It thus helps clear up conceptual fuzziness
and presses scholarship forward.”
*Nathalie Karagiannis is a poet and a researcher at the Institut für
Sozialforschung in Frankfurt, Germany *
“The contributors to this collection pursue a question that is as necessary
as it is audacious: Can we inhabit and recuperate the dominant discourses
of “crisis” for the purposes of critique? Put differently, they dare to
ask: Is it possible to rescue from this pervasive and dreary language of
“crisis” the promise of the “otherwise.” These engagements with the
normalization of “crisis” across the Mediterranean region demand that we
remain alert to the unforeseen sociopolitical, cultural, and artistic
possibilities. This volume thus reveals anew how the Mediterranean
crisis-scape may yet serve as an experimental space for a differential
present and alternative futures.”
*Nicholas De Genova, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of
Migration, Tactics of Bordering (2017)*
“This volume offers much-needed insights into the various turbulent events
that have troubled Mediterranean countries in recent years. Besides
valuable analyses of socio-political developments in specific countries
and the "crisis-scapes" surrounding them as well as artistic and literary
responses to these developments, the texts in this volume critically
scrutinize the role of the term "crisis" in managing border regimes and
framing public narratives about these events.”
*Stijn De Cauwer, editor of Critical Theory at a Crossroads (Columbia UP
2018)*
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