Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

Download or read book Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe written by Thanasis Lagios and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs. the economic crisis. The chapters shed light on the thread that links these two issues by first examining immigration and the transformations regarding its control and administration via border technologies, as well as on the centrality of the body as a means and carrier of border within contemporary biopolitical societies. In a second step, the authors proceed to a genealogy of the current discourses regarding the financial and political crisis through a Foucauldian and Lacanian perspective, focusing on the co-articulation of scientific knowledge and biopolitical power in Western societies.