Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe
ISBN-10
3319755862
ISBN-13
9783319755861
Category
Political Science
Pages
144
Language
English
Published
2018-04-25
Publisher
Springer
Authors
Vasia Lekka, Thanasis Lagios, Grigoris Panoutsopoulos

Description

This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and administration via border technologies, as well as on the centrality of the body as a means and carrier of border within contemporary biopolitical societies. In a second step, the authors proceed to a genealogy of the current discourses regarding the financial and political crisis through a Foucauldian and Lacanian perspective, focusing on the co-articulation of scientific knowledge and biopolitical power in Western societies.

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