Moving Images: Mediating Migration as Crisis

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In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of migration and refugeeism in Europe. The mediation of migration as a crisis, in turn, has done much to shore up certain kinds of humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging artistic practice and academic inquiry, the essays and artworks gathered in Moving Images interrogate the mediation of migration and refugeeism in the contemporary European conjuncture, asking how images, discourses, and data are involved in shaping visions of migration in increasingly global contexts. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Preface Through the Black Country, or, The Sources of the Thames Around the Great Shires of Lower England and Down the Severn River to the Atlantic Ocean Introduction. In and Against Crisis Section One. Moving Media The Literal, at Sea A Sensible Politics. Image Operations of Europe’s Refugee Crisis Controlling the Crisis Forensic Oceanography. Tracing Violence Within and Against the Mediterranean Frontier’s Aesthetic Regime Reframing the Border Migrant Images Listing Section Two. Mobile Positions “The Adouaba Project”. Tranquilos, Adwaba and Moving Spaces Unsanctioned Agency. Risk Profiling, Racialized Masculinity, and the Making of Europe’s “Refugee Crisis” The Calais Crisis. Real Refugees Welcome, Migrants “Do Not Come” SOPHIA. The Language of “Trafficking” in the Mediation of Gendered Migration Solidarity and the Aporia of “We”. Representation and Participation of Refugees in Contemporary Art Either You Get it Or You Don’t. A Conversation on LGBTQIA+ Refugees’s #Rockumenta Action Afterword Lies of the Land Bibliography List of Figures