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Klappentext As migration is described as a problem, mobility is seen as a goal. In a 'Europe without Borders', a place that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling with racism, two opposing paradigms characterise contemporary discussions surrounding migrants. Breaching Borders: Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste aims to interrogate the familiar debates, evolving new textual and interdisciplinary approaches to European cultural policies and unmasking the assumptions of the essentialist identity politics that go undeclared at the borders of cultural discourse. Twelve leading figures in post-colonial and translation studies, political philosophy, art, radical aesthetics, policy-making and sociology, reflect on the political and cultural meanings of migration; their arguments framed by artworks that provide glimpses of cross-cultural encounters. Essays - including a meditation on "wasted lives" by internationally renowned academic Zygmunt Bauman - explore the challenges of migration, history and integration and attempt to develop radical new figurations of migrant identity, underlining the necessity of an imaginative reach towards "The Other". This book brings together the roles of translation and of art in the central metaphor of waste - the trail of rubbish left behind by mechanisms of mobility; the excised narratives of wasted identities and people. Zusammenfassung In a 'Europe without borders' that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling desperately with racism, populated by ghettoized communities, refugee camps and zones of exclusion, two opposing paradigms characterise the discourses of migration: migrants as a problem, a parasite on the nation that disrupts social life, and mobility as the posi Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Mediations on Waste1.Zygmunt Bauman: Wasted Lives2.Nadja Stamselberg: Visualisation of Exclusion in Contemporary Europe3.Christian Sørhaug: On Wastelands4.Peter Mörtenböck: Waste and RelationsPart 2: Translating New Communities5. Alexander Nikolic: The Art of Cultural Activism6. Sandro Mezzadra: The Labyrinth of Contemporary Migrations7. Marina Grzinic: Art, Globalisation, Coloniality8. Karen Seago: Transcultural TranslationPart 3: Art and other Paradigms9. Richard Appignanesi: Dust, Ashes, Residua10. Anthony Gardner: When Art Migrates: Biennales and Itinerancy11. Juliet Steyn: Out of Place: Experiences of Modernity12. Nikos Papastergiadis: The Role of Art in Imagining Multicultural Communities...
