Too distant shores
The Strait of Gibraltar and the space of exception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15081663 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milija Gluhovic (University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-158 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in Drama Education The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9783 • E-ISSN: 1470-112X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569780802054802 |
| OpenAlex | W2106596308 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
Focusing on The Sheep and the Whale (Le mouton et la baleine, 2001) by Moroccan-Canadian playwright Ahmed Ghazali, this essay examines political and ethical issues concerning human migration from Africa to Europe. The play's representation of human rights abuses in the Strait of Gibraltar and the dilemmas facing illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers will be situated in relation to current debates about the state of exception and the new forms of neo-liberal governmentality employed under the conditions of globalisation. In one way, Ghazali's drama pays homage to those trying to enter Fortress Europe – and specifically to the nameless young African bodies washed up on the shores of southern Spain. It attempts, in part, to exorcise the unspoken violence of these people's deaths in what has become a vast African cemetery, while prompting us to ask what can be done in order to reduce the death toll in the Gibraltar Strait
Art · Drama · Ethnology · Geography · Globalization · Human rights · Literature · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
The Rights of Others
Response
New North African Immigration to Spain
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Homo Sacer
Interception Practices in Europe and Their Implications
Bare Life on Strike
Unauthorized Migration from Africa to Spain
The Cosmopolitics of Asylum-Seekers in the European Union
The European Union after 9/11
Democratic Exclusions and Democratic Iterations
Who Is the Subject of the Rights of Man
Necropolitics
| Highly cited | No |
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