Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

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

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
This book critically discusses two crises that shape our present: migration crisis and 20072008 crisis. The first part raises several questions regarding migration, borders, labour, humanitarianism and biopolitics; the second part focuses on the false dilemma between an interpretation of contemporary crisis in the West as capitalist or humanist.
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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Within the walls.- 2. Migrants vis-à-vis refugees: Towards a rationalisation of migration control and management.- 3. Opening and closing borders: Capitalism is speeding up.- 4. Borders' diffusion as a response to the humanist crisis: Towards a military-humanitarian nexus.- 5. Borders and bodies in twenty-first-century biopolitical societies: The migrant's body as carrier of the border.- 6. Conclusion: Facing a circulus vitiosus?.- 7. Exergum.- 8. Discourses on Crisis and Critical Discourse.- 9. The Man Without Qualities in a Universe Full of Quantities.- 10. Genealogy and the Question of the Present: A Conclusion?