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Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections
Johan Schimanski (Ed.)
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Description for Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections
Hardback. Organized around six key ideas-ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting-the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders. Editor(s): Schimanski, Johan. Series: Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTP; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas-ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting-the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.
Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of borders demonstrates. Organized around six key ideas-ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting-the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders, developed in detail through interdisciplinary analyses of literature, audio-visual borderscapes, historical and contemporary ecologies, political culture, and migration.
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Time and the World: Interdisciplinary Studies in Cultural Transformations
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785334641
SKU
V9781785334641
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About Johan Schimanski (Ed.)
Johan Schimanski is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and has also been an Adjunct Professor at the Arctic University of Norway. His publications include the co-edited volumes Border Poetics De-limited (2007), Arctic Discourses (2010), and Reiser og ekspedisjoner i litteraturens Arktis (2011). Stephen F. Wolfe is Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture at the ... Read more
Reviews for Border Aesthetics: Concepts and Intersections
By pushing aesthetics beyond its canonical topics and giving special attention to the link between aesthetic sensitivity and political context, this volume introduces a groundbreaking perspective and provides an impressive starting point for further wide-ranging investigations.
Tonino Griffero, University of Rome
Tonino Griffero, University of Rome