Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility: 12 (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, 12) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042020342 ISBN 13: 9789042020344

Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2006

Synopsis

This collection of essays investigates the convergence between the postmodern politics of mobility and a politics of metaphor, a politics, in other words, in the context of which the production and displacement of meaning(s) constitute the major stakes. Ranging from discussions of re-territorialization, multiculturalism, “digisporas” and transnational politics and ethics, to September 11th, the Pentagon’s New Map, American legislation on Chinese immigration, Gianni Amelio’s film Lamerica, Keith Piper’s online installations and Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios, the collection aims to follow three different theoretical trajectories. First, it seeks to rethink our concepts of mobility in order to open them up to the complexity that structures the thoughts and practices of a global order. Second, it critically examines the privileged position of concepts and metaphors of mobility within postmodern theory. In juxtaposing conflictual theoretical formulations, the book sets out to present the competing responses that fuel academic debates around this issue. Finally, it evaluates the influence of our increasingly mobile conceptual frameworks and everyday experience on the redefinition of politics that is currently under way, especially in the context of Post-Marxist theory. Its hope is to contribute to the production of alternative political positions and practices that will address the conflicting desires for attachment and movement marking postmodernity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042020342
• ISBN 13: 9789042020344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Margaroni Maria, Yiannopoulou Effie