Browsing On_Culture Vol. 10 (2020) by DDC-Classification "ddc:300"
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The Experience of Migration: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
(2021)In media, political and lay representations of migrants it remains frequently the case that metaphors are systematically used in racist and demeaning manners, though also, occasionally, in positive ways empathizing with ... -
The Politics of Housing Metaphors: Challenging Images of Migration and Patriarchy
(2020)Political metaphors condition social reality and mediate authority. One repeatedly used metaphor in discourses about migration and refuge is the misconception that the state is a house. Far from only defining the modalities ... -
Preface: Metaphors of Migration
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Racial and social dimensions of antiziganism: the representation of Gypsies in the political theory
(2021)Within antiziganism research, the relation of racial and social connotations in the us-age of the term gypsy is subject of an ongoing debate. Especially in the context of police work, historians suggest that until the ... -
Shapes on the Horizon: Reading the Pumice Raft and Migration through Agentic Ecologies and Australian Border Control
(2020)In 2019, reports of a raft of pumice adrift in the Pacific Ocean circulated. Expelled from the Earth by an underwater volcanic eruption, the raft is wonderous and abject, severed from its geologic origins. A threatening ... -
Transcultural Urban Re-Imaginings: Ephemeral and Participatory Art Interventions in the Macrolotto Zero Neighborhood
(2020)The city of Prato is arguably one of the most widely studied multicultural urban con-texts in Italy and more generally in Europe. Yet, in the analysis of the dynamics that enable this conceptualization of the city as a ... -
Transformations of Liberal Reason: Migration Politics and Shifts in Cultural Self-Interpretation
(2020)In light of the current multiple crises, authoritarian movements gain new strength. Claiming that globalization and especially migration is endangering social cohesion and national sovereignty, without considering ... -
Transtopian moves: the rhizome in Jonas Carpignano's feature films Mediterranea (2015) and A Ciambra (2017)
(2021)Film comes to its fore as a cultural product, which frames social experiences, relations, and is constructed through these itself. Dealing with our current global and fluid so-ciety the analysis will focus on constructions ... -
Troubling the Border: Global Poetic Trans* Dislocations
(2020)This essay considers, through analysis of two interrelated art projects, the roles that technology and art play in the metaphors that serve, both imaginatively and literally, to form, maintain, surveil, and dissolve borders. ...