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, Vol. 27, No. 2: pp. 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.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Ethnology
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology; 300 Social sciences > 320 Political science; 300 Social sciences > 360 Social problems and social services
• ISSN: 1755-2931
• Language: English