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dc.contributor.authorNiemi, Minna Johanna
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-11T11:18:05Z
dc.date.available2023-12-11T11:18:05Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-25
dc.description.abstractHelon Habila’s Travellers was written as a response to the refugee crisis in 2015, and it narrates loosely connected stories of African asylum seekers precariously travelling in Southern and Western European countries seeking shelter. This article discusses the novel’s representation of Europeans and migrants acting together by drawing from Jacques Rancière’s theorization of dissensus as a tool to challenge existing political hierarchies by creating new solidarities against present orders. I maintain that the novel manages to problematize the mainstream media images of immigration issues, as well as other such narrative tropes that reinforce the understanding of immigrants as Europe’s others. I argue that the novel instead exposes facets of structural violence in fortress Europe as it violently suppresses immigrant voices. Along these lines, the novel is further discussed as a representative of critical art or dissensual art that not only exposes contemporary exclusionary politics, but also advances a new affective politics by actively demonstrating more democratic ways of including people without a political voice. It can thus help to reconfigure which political questions are included in public deliberations in the future and provoke new, more democratic ways of seeing immigration issues.en_US
dc.identifier.citationNiemi. Contested political alliances in fortress Europe: migrants and Europeans in Helon Habila’s Travellers. Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. 2023en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2202761
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10304312.2023.2285698
dc.identifier.issn1030-4312
dc.identifier.issn1469-3666
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/31980
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalContinuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleContested political alliances in fortress Europe: migrants and Europeans in Helon Habila’s Travellersen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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