ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0102-869X; Benesch, Klaus; Michel, Hannah; Rugel, Agnes and Röder, Brendan
(October 2020):
A multidisciplinary review essay of Francisco Cantú’s book "The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border", Vintage, London, 2019.
Working Paper des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1369 "Vigilanzkulturen", 2020,3
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Abstract
What makes this review essay on Francisco Cantúʼs bestselling book on the US-Mexican border regimes uniquely thought-provoking – and, in equal measure, challenging – is the diversity of the disciplines involved and their relationship to the subject matter. Our working groupʼs aim has been to analyze notions of ›subjectivation‹, that is, the process of becoming a subject in relation to practices of vigilance. Thus, our working group explored what different disciplines can gain from reflecting on and analyzing the same text and which aspects of it they consider particularly relevant to ongoing debates on vigilance and subjectivation. What kind of subtexts are brought to light by these divergent readings and what aspects do some disciplines stress that others would not have noticed in such detail?
Item Type: | Paper |
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Keywords: | Vigilanz; border regime; subjectivation |
Faculties: | History and Art History Cultural Studies Languages and Literatures Special Research Fields > Special Research Field 1369: Cultures of Vigilance > Working Papers CRC 1369 Cultures of Vigilance |
Subjects: | 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism 800 Literature > 810 American literature in English 900 History and geography > 970 History of North America |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-73579-9 |
ISBN: | 2699-9242 |
Place of Publication: | München |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 73579 |
Date Deposited: | 16. Oct 2020, 05:48 |
Last Modified: | 23. Sep 2024, 09:33 |
DFG: | Gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - 394775490 |