(Un)sighted Archives of Migration - Spaces of Encounter and Resistance

List of contents

Foreword Introduction: (Un)Sighted Archives of Migration— Spaces of Encounter and Resistance 1. On Resistance and Failure in the Archival Art Installation 2. In/ Visible Images of Mobility: Sociality and Analog– Digital Materiality in Personal Archives of Transnational Migration 3. Objects of Migration— Photo- Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive 4. The Blank Spots: Making Migratory Archives Visible by Exploring Photographs 5. Objects of Migration: On Archives and Collections, Archivists and Collectors

About the author

Cathrine Bublatzky is a social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on visual cultures including art and photography, activism and museum studies, migration and memory. She has conducted her research in South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and works currently on Iranian photographers in the European diaspora.
Fiona Siegenthaler is an art historian and social anthropologist with a focus on contemporary urban art in Africa. She has conducted research and lectured on a wide range of creative practices in Kampala and Johannesburg and currently engages with the legacies and potentials of colonial museum collections for present and future societies.

Summary

This volume, with its transversal perspective across the fields of art, anthropology and social activism, offers new perspectives on the enormous potential of migratory archives as resourceful spaces for encounter and remembrance and as a contribution to the plural collective memories and identities of post-migratory societies.

Product details

• Authors: Cathrine (Assistant Professor Bublatzky
• Assisted by: Cathrine Bublatzky (Editor), Fiona Siegenthaler (Editor), Siegenthaler Fiona (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032330105
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233010-5
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology