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Krista Lynes, Tyler Morgenstern, Ian Alan Paul (eds.) Moving Images Media Studies | Volume 64 Dedicated to all those who resist and oppose the global bordering regime. Krista Lynes is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies and Associate Profes- sor in Communication Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) where they also founded and direct the Feminist Media Studio. Tyler Morgenstern is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a doctoral fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His work focuses on the imbrications between information and communication technologies and the racial and territorial politics of empire. He is also a contributing member of the Media Fields editorial col- lective at UCSB. Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist and theorist and is Assistant Professor of Emerging Media in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University. Their projects examine instantiations of power and practices of resistance in global contexts, and have been exhibited and published internationally. Krista Lynes, Tyler Morgenstern, Ian Alan Paul (eds.) Moving Images Mediating Migration as Crisis This project is made possible with the support of numerous institutions and funding agencies: the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chair program, the Feminist Media Studio, and Stony Brook University. The project is also published with the important support of Fondation IMéRA of Aix-Marseille University, and the French Agence Nationale de la Re- cherche, as part of its “investissements d’avenir” program (ANR-11-LABX-0027-01). Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (BY-NC-ND) which means that the text may be used for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to the author. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ To create an adaptation, translation, or derivative of the original work and for commercial use, further permission is required and can be obtained by contacting [email protected] Creative Commons license terms for re-use do not apply to any content (such as graphs, figures, pho- tos, excerpts, etc.) not original to the Open Access publication and further permission may be re- quired from the rights holder. The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material. © 2020 transcript Verlag, Bielefeld Cover layout: Maria Arndt, Bielefeld Cover illustration: Zineb Sedira, SeaPath, 2017 Layout: Jan Wenke, Leipzig Typeset by Jan Wenke, Leipzig Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-4827-0 PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-4827-4 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448274 Contents Acknowledgements Preface Sandro Mezzadra ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������11 Through the Black Country, or, The Sources of the Thames Around the Great Shires of Lower England and Down the Severn River to the Atlantic Ocean Allan deSouza ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 17 Introduction In and Against Crisis Tyler Morgenstern, Krista Lynes, and Ian Alan Paul ������������������������������������������������������27 Section One. Moving Media SeaPath Zineb Sedira ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������50 The Literal, at Sea Tyler Morgenstern ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������55 A Sensible Politics Image Operations of Europe’s Refugee Crisis Bishnupriya Ghosh �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������57 Controlling the Crisis Ian Alan Paul ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 71 Forensic Oceanography Tracing Violence Within and Against the Mediterranean Frontier’s Aesthetic Regime Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani �����������������������������������������������������������������������95 Reframing the Border Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan ������������������������������������������������������������127 Migrant Images Thomas Nail �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������147 Listing Thomas Keenan and Sohrab Mohebbi ���������������������������������������������������������������������165 The List Banu Cennetoğlu ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������169 Section Two. Mobile Positions The Adouaba Project Abdessamad El Montassir ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������176 “The Adouaba Project” Tranquilos, Adwaba and Moving Spaces Krista Lynes and Abdessamad El Montassir �������������������������������������������������������������183 Unsanctioned Agency Risk Profiling, Racialized Masculinity, and the Making of Europe’s “Refugee Crisis” Veronika Zablotsky �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������189 The Calais Crisis Real Refugees Welcome, Migrants “Do Not Come” Farah Atoui �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 211 SOPHIA The Language of “Trafficking” in the Mediation of Gendered Migration Krista Lynes ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������229 Solidarity and the Aporia of “We” Representation and Participation of Refugees in Contemporary Art Suzana Milevska ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 245 Either You Get it Or You Don’t A Conversation on LGBTQIA+ Refugees’s #Rockumenta Action Sophia Zachariadi and Krista Lynes ���������������������������������������������������������������������263 #Rockumenta LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 272 Afterword Lies of the Land Allan deSouza �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������281 Bibliography Acknowledgements It seems fitting that the recursive, iterative and circulatory dynamics of mediation at the heart of this anthology are matched in pace and connectivity by the processes that brought it to fruition. The project has advanced haltingly but collaboratively over the course of many years, taking a multiplicity of forms and interpellating a number of audiences and participants along the way. Our editorial efforts, moreover, have been matched unevenly by the rapid tempo of the unfolding “migrant crisis,” a temporality that made various forms of analysis impossible, even as it pushed us to generate new modes of thinking and academic engagement. Some of our initial thinking was incubated at the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro in 2014 in Montréal / Tio‘tiá:ke, which helped flesh out the possibilities and limitations of the concept “trespass” (a modality for us to think bodily crossings and mediated borders). We are grateful also to participants in a workshop at the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference in 2016 that sought to critically examine the representational regimes that frame and instantiate the European “migrant / refugee crisis” and consider the decolonizing potentials of various strategies of counter-map- ping, critical reading, and collaborative knowledge production. The anthology would not have been possible without the generous and generative participation of Farah Atoui, Allan deSouza, Corinn Gerber, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Adi Kuntsman, Suzana Milevska, Thomas Nail, and Veronika Zablotsky at the Trespassing Europe Summer Institute, hosted by the Feminist Media Studio in Montréal / Tio‘tiá:ke in June 2017. We extend gratitude to Maya Youngs-Zaleski, whose labors as a research assistant were absolutely vital to the Institute’s success. We are grateful also to the participants in this project who joined along the way — Abdessamad El Montassir, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Thomas Keenan and Sohrab Mohebbi, Banu Cennetoglu, LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece, Sandro Mez- zadra, Zineb Sedira, and Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren De Haan. The project is infinitely richer with their participation. We are particularly indebted to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Coun- cil of Canada for the Connection Grant that made possible the Trespassing Europe Summer Institute, and an Insight Grant that buoyed the exchanges and this anthology which results from it. Much of the project materially depends on the Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies (Lynes) and the Feminist Media Studio at Concordia University supported through it. We are also grateful to the Fondation IMéRA — Institut d’Etudes Avancées for supporting this project in multiple ways, and concretely through a publication grant. This support was vital to making the anthology Open Access, a key political decision for us as editors. We also thank Transcript Verlag, and Jakob Horst- 10 Acknowledgements mann particularly, for receiving this manuscript so warmly and for working with us to both honor the visual contributions so vital to the anthology and to make the anthol- ogy accessible. We thank also Fanny Gravel-Patry, our research assistant who indeed assisted indefatigably throughout the editorial process. Finally, we feel it important to acknowledge how profoundly this project has been informed by the various sites at and across which it has taken shape. Though our ana- lytic focus has for years now been trained on the European context, our thinking has been nourished by the places in which we have written, taught, and thought (togeth- er and apart) over the course of this book’s creation. Humbly, we have learned, and continue to learn, from the struggles for migrant justice currently unfolding at and around the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico; from the struggle for Palestinian liberation in the West Bank and Gaza; from the decolonial aspirations and sovereign enactments of Indigenous peoples and movements across Turtle Island from Tio‘tiá:ke to Chiapas, and in all places between and beyond; and from the insist- ent, insurgent, and indefatigable demands of Black Lives Matter. Our thinking is quite impossible without the spaces of imaginative, political, and ethical possibility such projects, among innumerable others, manage to hold open amidst and against the re- lentless forces of enclosure. We acknowledge our deep intellectual and political debts to this movement work, which is always knowledge work, and always theory.

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