Visual Images of Framing Borders from Migration to Pandemic Crises

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ID19370264
AuthorsBasia Nikiforova (0000-0003-2774-4707, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume33
Issue3
Publication date2022-09-13
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFilosofija. Sociologija (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0235-7186 • E-ISSN: 2424-4546
PublisherLithuanian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • LT)
DOI10.6001/fil-soc.v33i3.4779
OpenAlexW4296593757
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

Representations of critical geography and border studies have developed concepts and methodologies for exploring the multifaceted and contradictory image of contemporary borders. Artists, scholars and social activists show increased interest in the narrative and visual documenting of border’s closures. The border’s visuality becomes a supporting argument for dissent and protest, giving the ‘visual evidence’ of the extremely quick border’s re-territoriality. As a result, important events allow one ‘to extracts sameness even from what is unique’ (W. Benjamin). The mass migration and the pandemic return us to the reality of the human world with their non-freedom and illness. In the migration case, Europe has dealt with an ‘alien body’, and in the pandemic, with an ‘infected or sick body’. The relationship between the image and the viewer is an important starting point in the representation of mass migration and pandemic. Mitchell’s metaphor of ‘live images’ help us better understand the sense and reasons of new biological and politic events. Nowadays, the development, materialisation, and embodiment of European borders are the stable visual symbol of our existence

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Media studies · Metaphor · Narrative · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · History

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