Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society)

This collection rethinks __crisis__ in relation to __critique__ through the prism of various declared ‘crises’ in the Mediterranean: the refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian question, and others. With contributions from cultural, literary, film, and migration studies and sociology, this book shifts attention from Europe to the Mediterranean as a site not only of intersecting crises, but a breeding ground for new cultures of critique, visions of futurity, and radical imaginaries shaped through or against frameworks of crisis. If crisis rhetoric today serves populist, xenophobic or anti-democratic agendas, can the concept __crisis__ still do the work of __critique__ or partake in transformative languages by scholars, artists, and activists? Or should we forge different vocabularies to understand present realities? This collection explores alternative mobilizations of __crisis__ and forms of art, cinema, literature, and cultural practices across the Mediterranean that disengage from dominant crisis narratives. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction: From Crisis to Critique (Maria Boletsi, Janna Houwen, Liesbeth Minnaard)....Pages 1-24 Front Matter ....Pages 25-25 Dwelling in Noncrisis (Im)possibility: Transmigrant Collective Action in Greece, 2016 (Karen Emmerich)....Pages 27-42 In the Refugee Machine: The Absence of Crisis and Its Critical (Re-)Production (Janna Houwen)....Pages 43-62 In Precarity and Prosperity: Refugee Art Going Beyond the Performance of Crisis (Ipek A. Çelik Rappas, Diego Benegas Loyo)....Pages 63-79 Crisis, Common Sense, and Boredom: A Critique of Neoliberal Hegemony in Turkey (Begüm Özden Fırat)....Pages 81-100 Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Populism in Spain: Metaphor, Nation-branding, and Social Change (Pablo Valdivia)....Pages 101-117 Front Matter ....Pages 119-119 Palestine and the Migrant Question (Olivia C. Harrison)....Pages 121-143 Lampedusa in Europe; Or Touching Tales of Vulnerability (Liesbeth Minnaard)....Pages 145-162 Alternative Hospitalities on the Margins of Europe (Nataša Kovačević)....Pages 163-179 Front Matter ....Pages 181-181 Algeria Time and Water Logic: Image, Archive, Mediterranean Futurity (Megan C. MacDonald)....Pages 183-208 Greek Weird Wave; Or, on How to Do a Cinema of Biopolitics (Dimitris Papanikolaou)....Pages 209-230 Moving Images, Moving Archives: Fracturing the Crisis in Interactive Greek Documentaries (Geli Mademli)....Pages 231-248 Ice-as-Money and Dreams-as-Ice: Christos Ikonomou’s “The Blood of the Orange” and the Critique of Liquidity (Jonas Taudal Bækgaard)....Pages 249-265 Rethinking Stasis and Utopianism: Empty Placards and Imaginative Boredom in the Greek Crisis-Scape (Maria Boletsi)....Pages 267-290 Back Matter ....Pages 291-312