Lethal borders and the alter-politics of "ordinary people"

Perl, Gerhild (2018): Lethal borders and the alter-politics of "ordinary people". In: Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, Bd. 27, Nr. 2: S. 85-104

Abstract

How are politics generated by grief actually lived, and how do they endure? By exploring long-term repercussions of Europe’s lethal borders, I show what shape shared grief takes in the minute encounters between ‘ordinary people’ across borders and how alternative politics are lived as a vivid critique of the moral economy of the EU border regime. Therefore, I explore intimate uncertainties that arise both in the confrontation with death and in the unexpected affection between strangers. The analysis of a single shipwreck in 2003 indicates the need for more ethnographically nuanced, historically informed and translocal approaches to death during migration in anthropology.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Ethnologie
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politik ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 360 Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste
• ISSN: 1755-2931
• Sprache: Englisch