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SUMMARY:The illegalisation of movement across the Mediterranean –-‘for
 tress Europe’ - Caroline Breeden\, PhD candidate\, Faculty of Education\
 , University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:"The illegalisation of movement across the Mediterranean towar
 ds what has come to be known as ‘fortress Europe’\, must be placed wit
 hin a continuum of anti-blackness and racism (Danewid 2017). Therefore it 
 is necessary that the framing of the ‘illegal migrant’ and subsequent 
 ‘ungreivability’ of these lives (Butler 2010) is set within an entangl
 ed history of empire and colonialism. The aesthetic arena can provide powe
 rful ways to highlight this relationship. In this context\, this session p
 rovides a set of critical reflections on the ethics of visual representati
 on and framing of contemporary migration. Using artworks and visual prompt
 s to aid discussion\, it will invite a conversation on the spectacle and a
 estheticization of suffering and atrocity\, difficulties in navigating and
  linking the historical landscape of the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the
  contemporary moment of migration in the Mediterranean\, the paradoxes inh
 erent in representations often projected through the Western gaze (Wood 20
 00) and the extent to which a counter-discourse to dominant representation
 s can be created in effective\, politically moving ways."\n\nSee Borders\,
  colonialism\, and migration Study Group https://www.humanmovement.cam.ac.
 uk/events/2023-24-thinking-borders-colonialism-and-migration-withthrough-i
 mages-borders-colonialism-and\n\nCentre for Global Human Movement https://
 www.humanmovement.cam.ac.uk/\n\nThis talk is part of the Borders\, colonia
 lism\, and migration Study Group. Centre for the Study Global Human Moveme
 nt series.
LOCATION:Alison Richard Building\, S3
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