Abstract
How to write about survival? How to tell survival? By exploring manifold reasons to withhold a story, I shed light on the limits of ethnographic knowledge production and the politics of storytelling that mobilize one story and silence another. Through engaging with the fragmented narrative of a Moroccan survivor of a shipwreck in Spanish waters in 2003, I reconceptualize the movement called "migration as survival" by theorizing it as an ethnographic concept. I explore the different temporalities of survival as living through a life-threatening event and as living on in an unjust world. These interrelated temporalities of survival are embedded in the afterlife of the historical time of al-Andalus and the resurgent fear of the Muslim "Other" By suggesting an existentially informed political understanding of the survival story, I show how the singularity of the survivor is inscribed in a regime of mobility that constrains people and their stories.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Cultural Studies > Department of Ancient and Modern Cultures > Ethnology |
| Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 390 Customs, etiquette and folklore |
| ISSN: | 2574-1306 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 129121 |
| Date Deposited: | 29. Oct 2025 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 29. Oct 2025 15:43 |
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