Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities – Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge, and Agnes Woolley (Eds.)

Notes on Contributors

Introduction — Emma Cox, Sam Durrant, David Farrier, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Agnes Woolley

PART I. REFUGEE GENEALOGIES

Introduction — Lyndsey Stonebridge

1. Refugees in Modern World History — Peter Gatrell

2. Theories of the Refugee, After Hannah Arendt — Ned Curthoys

3. A Genealogy of Refugee Writing — Arthur Rose

4. Genres of Refugee Writing — Anna Bernard

PART II. ASYLUM

Introduction — Agnes Woolley

5. Sexual and Gender-Based Asylum and the Queering of Global Space: Reading Desire, Writing Identity and the Unconventionality of the Law — Sudeep Dasgupta

6. Morality and Law in the Context of Asylum Claims — Anthony Good

7. The Politics of the Empty Gesture: Frameworks of Sanctuary, Theatre and The City — Alison Jeffers

PART III. THE BORDER

Introduction — Emma Cox

8. Docu/Fiction and the Aesthetics of the Border — Agnes Woolley

9. Crossings, Bodies, Behaviours — Liam Connell

10. The Digital Border: the Media of Refugee Reception during the 2015 Migration ‘Crisis’ — Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou

PART IV. INTRA/EXTRATERRITORIAL DISPLACEMENT

Introduction — Sam Durrant

11. The ‘Dead Road’, Displacement, and the Recovery of Life-in-Common: Narrating the African Conflict Zone — Maureen Moynagh

12. ‘What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?’: Memoir and the Aporia of Refuge in Hisham Matar’s The Return — Norbert Bugeja

13. ‘A Man carries his door’: Affective Displacement and Refugee Poetry — Douglas Robinson

14. Reframing Climate Migration: A Case for Constellational Thinking in the Writing of Teju Cole — Byron Santangelo

PART V. THE CAMP

Introduction — Emma Cox

15. Memories and Meanings of Refugee Camps (and more-than-camps) — Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

16. Writing the Camp: Death, Dying and Dialects — Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

17. Reel Refugees: Inside and Outside the Camp — Madelaine Hron

PART VI. SEA CROSSINGS

Introduction — David Farrier

18. Zoopolitics of Asylum Seeker Marine Deaths and Cultures of Anthropophagy — Joseph Pugliese

19. The Mediterranean Sieve, Spring and Seametery — Hakim Abderrezak

20. ‘Island is no arrival’: Migrants’ Islandment at the Borders of Europe — Mariangela Palladino

21. At Sea: Hope as Survival and Sustenance for Refugees — Parvati Nair

PART VII. DIGITAL TERRITORIES

Introduction — Agnes Woolley

22. Networked Narratives: Online Self-Expression from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon — Mary Mitchell

23. Refugee writing, Refugee History: Locating the Refugee Archive in the Making of a History of the Syrian War — Dima Saber and Paul Long

24. Digital Biopolitics, Humanitarianism and the Datafication of Refugees — Btihaj Ajana

25. The Messenger: Refugee Testimony and the Search for Adequate Witness — Gillian Whitlock & Rosanne Kennedy

PART VIII. HOME

Introduction — David Farrier

26. Home and Law: Impersonality and Worldlessness in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, Ging, Gegangen — Daniel Hartley

27. Autobiography of a Ghost: Home and Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees — Mireille Rosello

28. Homing as Co-creative Work: When Home Becomes a Village — Misha Myers and Mariam Issa

PART IX. OPEN CITIES

Introduction — Sam Durrant

29. ‘Another politics of the city’: Urban Practices of Refuge, Advocacy and Activism — Jonathan Darling

30. The Welcome City? — Hannah Lewis and Louise Waite

31. In the City’s Public Spaces: Movements of Witnesses and the Formation of Moral Community — André Grahle

32. Open/Closed Cities: Cosmopolitan Melancholia and the Disavowal of Refugee Life — Sam Durrant

Index