Thomas Nail
Publisher
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobility studies, it investigates moving workers through the lens of coercion. The contributions in this book are based on extensive archival research and span Europe and North America over the past 500 years. They provide fresh historical perspectives on the various regimes of coercion, mobility, and immobility...
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of migration and refugeeism in Europe. The mediation of migration as a crisis, in turn, has done much to shore up certain kinds of humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging artistic practice and academic inquiry, the essays and artworks gathered in Moving Images...
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
[2025]
Description
Continental philosophers and contemporary artists transform the classics into living practicesA volume of original essays, four previously untranslated articles, novel visual art, and reproduced images, by an international lineup of today's leading thinkers and practitionersFeatures non-expository or non-argumentative elements, such as exhortative, prescriptive, or didactic dimensions (telling the reader to do something specific, such as, do an exercise,...