Description
Book SynopsisDepartures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees.
Trade Review"
Departures works best as a critical manifesto ‘by and for refugees.’ Bold and provocative, it will not fail to spark conversations in the coming years." * Review of International American Studies *
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Departures illuminates us in a brave and stimulating way on many layers and levels. The authors of this influential book succeed in eloquently articulating how to dishonour and dismantle not only dated methodologies to understand refugee issues but also the treatment of refugees." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"This compact book performs two significant functions for the field of critical refugee studies: it provides a name for a growing body of critical analyses of the forced displacement of people by conflicts, their experiences of forced migration, and the history and discourse of the humanitarian sector, and it claims a refugee-centered and critical feminist place in the scholarly literature. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities
Introduction: Departures
1. A Refugee Critique of the Law: On "Fear and Persecution"
2. A Refugee Critique of Fear: On Livability and Durability
3. A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism: On Ungratefulness and Refusal
4. A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity
Conclusion: In/Verse
Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR
Notes
References
Index
