Departures : an introduction to critical refugee studies / the Critical Refugee Studies Collective: Yé̂n Lê Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um, Lila Sharif, Nigel Hatton.
Prologue: A letter to our communities -- Introduction: Departures -- A refugee critique of the law : on "fear and persecution" -- A refugee critique of fear : on livability and durability -- A refugee critique of humanitarianism : on ungratefulness and refusal -- A refugee critique of representations : on criticality and creativity -- Conclusion: In/verse -- Epilogue: A letter to UNHCR.
Summary:
"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 concerns with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions, and to forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees 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"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.