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This book is an interdisciplinary study aimed at re-imagining and
re-routing contemporary migrations in the Mediterranean. Drawing
from visual arts, citizenship studies, film, media and cultural
studies, along with postcolonial, border, and decolonial
discourses, and examining the issues from within a human rights
framework, the book investigates how works of cultural production
can offer a more complex and humane understanding of mobility in
the Mediterranean beyond representations of illegality and/or
crisis. Elvira Pulitano centers the discourse of cultural
production around the island of Lampedusa but expands the island
geography to include a digital multi-media project, a social
enterprise in Palermo, Sicily, and overall reflections on race,
identity, and belonging inspired by Toni Morrison's guest-curated
Louvre exhibit The Foreigner's Home. Responding to recent calls for
alternative methodologies in thinking the modern Mediterranean,
Pulitano disseminates a fluid archive of contemporary migrations
reverberating with ancestral sounds and voices from the African
diaspora along a Mediterranean-TransAtlantic map. Adding to the
recent proliferation of social science scholarship that has drawn
attention to the role of artistic practice in migration studies,
the book features human stories of endurance and survival aimed at
enhancing knowledge and social justice beyond (and notwithstanding)
militarized borders and failed EU policies.
This book can be viewed as a series of investigations into the
ongoing imbrications of the practices of art, ethics and education
as conducted within each author's specific context of practice as
artist, educator, researcher. It constitutes an international
anthology of explorations that are by no means exclusive but
conscious of the ongoing iterations, mutations and individuations
of relations between art, ethics and education, which, in turn,
seek to expand how we might conceive these terms as practices. This
ongoing evolution reminds us that as practices art, ethics and
education are always incomplete processes affected by and affecting
their specific milieus and environments. Chapters within the book
cover a wide range of ethical questions and educational contexts,
broaching subjects as varied as higher education, artificial
intelligence, animal ethics, transcultural encounters,
collaborative art, the education of senior citizens and experiences
of conflict. Art, ethics and education are not conceived in terms
of established orders, representations, ideals, criteria or bodies
of knowledge and practice, but rather in terms of dynamic,
relational processes and their potentialities, that arise within
specific locations, cartographies and ecologies of practice. The
notions of art, ethics and education are viewed in terms of
assemblages that have the capacity to generate new modes of
practice that may question established values and advance new
overlappings of aesthetic, ethical and political relations.
Contributors are: Dennis Atkinson, Hashim Al Azzam, John
Baldacchino, Bazon Brock, Carl-Peter Buschkuhle, Sahin Celikten,
Ana Dimke, Brian Grassom, Leena Hannula, Brian Hughes, jan
jagodzinski, Timo Jokela, Mira Kallio-Tavin, Joachim Kettel,
Guillermo Marini, Catarina Martins, Joe Sacco, Francisco Schwember,
Juuso Tervo, Raphael Vella and Branka Vujanovic.
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