Robins

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Migrating borders and moving timesanalyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime...

Border deaths are a result of dynamics involving diverse actors, and can be interpreted and represented in various ways. Critical voices from civil society (including academia) hold states responsible for making safe journeys impossible for large parts of the world population. Meanwhile, policy-makers argue that border deaths demonstrate the need for restrictive border policies. Statistics are widely (mis)used to support different readings of border...

Die Online-Suche provoziert Debatten über die Selbstbestimmung des Einzelnen. Denn wer sucht, kann nicht nur finden, sondern auch gefunden werden. Um diesem paradoxen Verhältnis auf die Schliche zu kommen, lohnt sich ein Blick in die Vergangenheit. Ausgehend von historischen Texten - insbesondere Hugo von Sankt Viktor, Michel de Montaigne, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Martin Schrettinger und Paul Otlet - lassen sich Probleme nachzeichnen, die sich...

"Creative Hustling is the first book length study about Nairobi-based female filmmakers and their labor as artists and entrepreneurs. Based on original empirical research, Steedman explores how these women pair their cinematic ability with an equally apt business acumen, contributing to a narrative of what it takes to succeed as a filmmaker in Nairobi. This book theorizes "hustling" as a creative practice and an innovative mode of working-one that...