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Refugee Talk : Propositions on Ethics and Aesthetics
by Eva Rask Knudsen and Ulla Rahbek
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Overview
An innovative approach to the refugee crisis through a focus on language use, discourse and representation
'A wide-ranging, erudite and multi-faceted analyses of the fundamental problem of who gets to be counted as human' - Kate Evans What does it mean to be a refugee? What political questions do they raise? Through what political rhetoric is their experiences parsed? The ongoing refugee crisis has sparked all these questions and more. Refugee Talk uses conversation as a research method and ethical practice to approach the representation of and the discourse about and by the refugee. Though refugees who cross borders are routinely registered, filed, and detained, the individual stories they carry are just as routinely overlooked or ignored. When language itself becomes another border that excludes refugees, the need for a new vocabulary that decriminalizes and re-humanizes the refugee experience asserts itself. The authors engage theoretically with thinkers from Hannah Arendt to Paolo Freire and Kwame A. Appiah and structure the book around conversations with academics, activists, journalists, and refugee artists and writers. The result is a comprehensive humanities approach that places ethics and aesthetics at its core.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9780745344423
- ISBN-10: 0745344429
- Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
- Publish Date: July 2022
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 240
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