Of Werewolves, Jungles, and Refugees
More-than-human Figures along the Balkan Route
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948868 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Minca (0000-0001-6619-6614, Department of History and Cultures, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 550-569 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2021.1931840 |
| OpenAlex | W3187308013 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 33 |
Drawing from Giorgio Agamben’s conceptualisation of the werewolf as a more-than-human figure, this article investigates how this figure may help in analysing the ‘animalisation’ of the refugees banned to the forest along the so-called Balkan Route. After briefly discussing how the werewolf has historically been a recurrent motif in European folkloric accounts and popular narratives depicting the stranger and the abnormal, the article examines how the werewolf has been presented by Agamben as a key figure in his conceptualisation of the sovereign ban. The article then proposed a reading of the Balkan Route and its informal refugee mobilities focussed on their unruly spatialities, made of makeshift camps but also forests and bushes converted into temporarily inhabited ‘jungles’ by banned individuals-on-the-move. The final section illustrates the violence at the border by engaging with Rita Sakr’s analysis of two shorts stories written by Iraqi former refugee Hassan Blasim and based on a more-than-human refugee journey across the Balkan Route. The article concludes by suggesting that the figure of the werewolf-refugee may help in understanding the condition of refugees along the Balkan Route and the violence they are exposed to during their more-than-human journeys across this corner of Europe
Archaeology · Art · Close reading · Folklore · Human rights · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Sovereignty · Syrian refugees · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Political Theology and Sovereignty
From Source to Corridor
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Development
La jungle de Calais
Homo Sacer
Sovereignty as Erasure
Derrida Contra Agamben
Mass Migrations as a Messianic Event? Rereading Agamben’s State of Exception in Light of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
Upright Citizens on All Fours
Who Is the Animal in the Zoo?” Fencing In and Fencing Out at the Hungarian-Serbian Border. A Qualitative Case Study
A migrant “hot potato” system
Giorgio agamben and the new biopolitical nomos
A Refugee Camp Conundrum
Understanding Transit Asylum Migration
I Would Have Eaten You Too ”
More-than-human social geographies
Nazi biopolitics and the dark geographies of the selva
Bordering solidarities
Human Blacklisting
Neither sensibly homed nor homeless
Posthumanism and the Monstrous Body
Giorgio Agamben and the Community without Identity
The Omnibus Homo Sacer
The more-than-human refugee journey
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |