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‘The refugee is … FOOD FOR BIOPOLITICS’: Critical knowledgescapes in Ursula Biemann’s CONTAINED MOBILITY and X-MISSION

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dc.creatorBilkić, Ljudmila
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-27T15:52:38Z
dc.date.available2020-01-27T15:52:38Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThere is an aggressive dichotomy between what migration is to modern humans and how migration continues to be (re)presented throughout history. While an essential characteristic of human existence, migration also carries highly problematic associations of danger, threat, and weakness within official designations of the ‘refugee’, the ‘asylum seeker’, and the ‘illegal’. This article focuses on the continuously unfolding narrative of the refugee experience through two essay films by Ursula Biemann, CONTAINED MOBILITY (2004) and X-MISSION (2008). By employing the interdisciplinary approach of ‘critical knowledgescapes’, it offers a contextualised glimpse into the deliberate historical and sociopolitical circumstances that shape the popular global perception of ‘modern rapid migration’. Ultimately, the article demonstrates how new media works challenge problematic narratives of human existence. Works such as CONTAINED MOBILITY and X-MISSION offer new forms of visuo-narrative evidence in which individuals caught in rapid migration successfully and productively negotiate their space, compelling us to move past viewing rapid migration as an exceptional reality and to begin accepting it as one of the constant ways of life.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13138
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-refugee-is-food-for-biopolitics-critical-knowledgescapes-in-ursula-biemanns-contained-mobility-and-x-mission/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14059
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectasylum seekeren
dc.subjectborderen
dc.subjectcritical geographyen
dc.subjectcultural anthropologyen
dc.subjectfilm essayen
dc.subjectillegalen
dc.subjectknowledgescapeen
dc.subjectMigration
dc.subjectmovementen
dc.subjectnew mediaen
dc.subjectpower geometryen
dc.subjectrefugeeen
dc.subjectspaceen
dc.subjectKulturanthropologiede
dc.subjectFilmessayde
dc.subjectNeue Mediende
dc.subjectFlüchtlingde
dc.subjectRaumde
dc.subjectBewegungde
dc.subjectEssayfilmde
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personUrsula Biemann
dc.subject.workCONTAINED MOBILITY
dc.subject.workX-MISSION
dc.title‘The refugee is … FOOD FOR BIOPOLITICS’: Critical knowledgescapes in Ursula Biemann’s CONTAINED MOBILITY and X-MISSIONen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLjudmila Bilkić: ‘The refugee is … FOOD FOR BIOPOLITICS’: Critical knowledgescapes in Ursula Biemann’s CONTAINED MOBILITY and X-MISSION. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 8 (2019) Nr. 2, S. 49–69. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/13138.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:00:43
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/the-refugee-is-food-for-biopolitics-critical-knowledgescapes-in-ursula-biemanns-contained-mobility-and-x-mission/
local.source.epage69
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitle#Gesture
local.source.spage49
local.source.volume8
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/12146184X
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22965287

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