Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and administration via border technologies, as well as on the centrality of the body as a means and carrier of border within contemporary biopolitical societies. In a second step, the authors proceed  to a genealogy of the current discourses regarding the financial and political crisis through a Foucauldian and Lacanian perspective, focusing on the co-articulation of scientific knowledge and biopolitical power in Western societies.  

Info autore

Thanasis Lagios
is Teaching Assistant at the University of Athens, Greece.

Vasia Lekka
is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece.


Grigoris Panoutsopoulos
is Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece.

Riassunto

Uncovers multiple dimensions of the technoscientific mechanisms of control of immigration and re-reads them through the prism of the 2008 crisis


Juxtaposes the lived experience of migration, i.e. the body against the border, with and its narrative/discourse in the form of a geneaology of crisis


Draws on several theoretical traditions to decide whether the current migration crisis is in fact a crisis or something endemic to capitalism

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thanasis Lagios, Vasia Lekka, Grigoris Panoutsopoulos, Thanasi Lagios, Vasi Lekka, Grig Panoutsopoulos
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2018
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Teorie politiche e storia delle idee
• EAN: 9783319755854
• ISBN: 978-3-31-975585-4
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Illustrazioni: XII, 144 p.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 1.5 x 21.7 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 332 g
• Categorie: Migration, Globalisierung, Europa, C, Globalization, Europe, Politik und Staat, European Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, biotechnology, Politics & government, Migration, immigration & emigration, auseinandersetzen, Citizenship, Political Science and International Studies, Political science and theory, Emigration and immigration, International Security Studies, Security, International, Civics & citizenship, Europe—Politics and government