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Building on analyses of the relationship between race, aesthetics and politics, the volume elaborates on the epistemological possibilities arising from collaborative and decolonial methodologies at the intersection of ethnography, art, performance and the urban space. It moves from practice-based and collaborative research with young Mapuche and mestizo artists and activists in Santiago (Chile), drawing together a range of different materials: from artworks to theatre and performance; from graphics to audio and visual materials. An edited collection, the book is constructed by shifting between different authorships and changing perspectives from the individual to the collective. This approach, while to a certain extent within the classical structure of editors/authors, plays with the roles of researcher/research participant, highlighting the ambiguities, frictions and exchanges involved in this relationship. Elaborating on indigenous knowledge production, the book thus addresses the possibility of disrupting the social and material landscape of the (post)colonial city by articulating meanings through artistic and performative representations. As such, the essays contained in the book put forward alternative imaginations constructed through an aesthetic defined by the Mapuche concept of champurria (‘mixed’): a particular way of knowing and engaging with reality, and ultimately an active process of home- and self-making beyond the spatialities usually assigned to colonised bodies and subjects. Actively engaging with current debates through collective writing by indigenous people raising questions in terms of decolonisation, the book stands as both an academic and a political project, interrogating the relationship between activism and academia, and issues of representation, authorship and knowledge production.
tensions that cut across numerous NSIs and international statistical organisations. These are the main arguments of our analysis of fieldwork that we draw on in this chapter, which involved a collaborative ethnography of several NSIs and international statistical organisations in Europe. 3 By observing meetings, conducting interviews, shadowing statisticians, observing experiments and performing participatory exercises, we attended to how practices traverse, travel between and connect sites and scales.4 This is what we refer to as a ‘transversal’ ethnographic method (see
directed against them by members of the receiving society. Furthermore, this chapter refers to the gendered boundaries and borders between the public and private domain as experienced by women in the context of care. New migrants of all categories find themselves spatially disconnected from their formerly extended social network in the homeland and re-situated, in the arrival country, in a rather narrow bounded network which confines some of them to spending long hours in the private sphere at home. By applying a collaborative ethnographic approach to
The chapter examines the spectacularisation of Mediterranean borderscapes evident in the dramatic staging of refugee crises and migrant deaths in the Mediterranean in the media in particular. On the basis of the work of the philosopher Hannah Arendt, this spectacularisation is understood as a part of a ‘politics of in/visibility’ that frames political subjects as either relevant or negligible through processes of making in/visible at the shifting threshold between what is worthy of being seen and what is not, which is evidenced in the limited public visibility and agency of migrants and refugees, as well as of civil society, groups and individuals inhabiting Mediterranean borderscapes. On the basis of collaborative ethnographic research with young people in the Italian/Tunisian borderland addressing their images and narratives of borders, the chapter presents a borderscaping approach aiming to de-spectacularise images and narratives of Mediterranean borderscapes. It shows how mixed collaborative visual methods enable possible ‘tactics’ for negotiating regimes of in/visibility to restore public visibility agency that will allow for new forms of political participation and subjectivity. In this way, Mediterranean borderscapes emerge as a space of political becoming where new forms of performative political participation can be developed.
Given the significant similarities and differences between the welfare states of Northern Europe and their reactions to the perceived 'refugee crisis' of 2015, the book focuses primarily on the three main cases of Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Placed in a wider Northern European context – and illustrated by those chapters that also discuss refugee experiences in Norway and the UK – the Danish, Swedish and German cases are the largest case studies of this edited volume. Thus, the book contributes to debates on the governance of non-citizens and the meaning of displacement, mobility and seeking asylum by providing interdisciplinary analyses of a largely overlooked region of the world, with two specific aims. First, we scrutinize the construction of the 2015 crisis as a response to the large influx of refugees, paying particular attention to the disciplinary discourses and bureaucratic structures that are associated with it. Second, we investigate refugees’ encounters with these bureaucratic structures and consider how these encounters shape hopes for building a new life after displacement. This allows us to show that the mobility of specific segments of the world’s population continues to be seen as a threat and a risk that has to be governed and controlled. Focusing on the Northern European context, our volume interrogates emerging policies and discourses as well as the lived experiences of bureaucratization from the perspective of individuals who find themselves the very objects of bureaucracies.
quiltmaking and communication ’. Human Studies . 17 : 65–80 . Lassiter , E. ( 2005 ). The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Lunn , J. ( 2014 ). Fieldwork in the Global South: Ethical Challenges and Dilemmas . London : Routledge . Mandel , J
refugees, as well as of civil society, groups and individuals inhabiting Mediterranean borderscapes. On the basis of collaborative ethnographic research with young people in the Italian/Tunisian borderland, the chapter shows the benefit of mixed collaborative visual methods as means to outline possible ‘tactics’ for negotiating regimes of in/visibility in an attempt to restore public visibility to young people. Reimagining this borderscape around young people's border imaginations and experiences favours new forms of political participation and subjectivity that call
, it could also provide a degree of political and ethical legitimacy to the enterprise. At the same time, many film-makers hoped that by working with the subjects of the film, it would be possible to produce films that would in some sense be beneficial to them, thereby providing additional justification for their presumption of the right to place their subjects’ lives in the public domain through their film-making. However, as described in the course of this chapter, after an initial period of enthusiasm, it soon became apparent that collaborative
, MA : Beacon Press ). Isopp , B. ( 2015 ) ‘ Scientists who become activists: are they crossing a line? ’, Journal of Science Communication , 14 : 2 , 1–5 . Kende , A. ( 2016 ) ‘ Separating social science research on activism from social science as activism ’, Journal of Social Issues , 72 : 2 , 399–412 . Lassiter , L. E. ( 2005 ) ‘ Collaborative ethnography and public anthropology ’, Current Anthropology , 46 : 1 , 83–100 . Lederach , J. P. ( 1995