Departures

An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

Yen Le Espiritu,Lan Duong,Ma Vang,Victor Bascara,Khatharya Um

• Editorial: University of California Press
• Año: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780520386396
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Ciencias sociales
• Categoría: Estudios de desarrollo global

Departures 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.

Índice

• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 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