Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes

Maria Boletsi is Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Assistant Professor in Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of Barbarism and Its Discontents (2013) and co-author of Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature and the Arts (2018).Janna Houwen is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of Film and Video Intermediality: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images (2017) and co-editor of Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines (2018).Liesbeth Minnaard is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of New Germans, New Dutch: Literary Interventions (2008) and co-editor of Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism (2014).

“The book … sets the ambitious goal to bring new meaning to this word and restore its semantic multiplicity. … it offers a rich overview of the most important theoretical scholarship on the subject … it concretely provides the reader with the means to reread and rethink contemporaneity under new points of view. In this sense, the book constitutes one of the most evident manifestations of the indispensable political role of cultural studies, and by extension, of contemporary humanities.” (Francesca Zaccone, Journal of Greek Media & Culture, Vol. 8 (1), 2022)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Dwelling in Noncrisis (Im)possibility: Transmigrant Collective Action in Greece, 2016.- 3. In the Refugee Machine: The Absence of Crisis and its Critical (Re-)Production.- 4. In Precarity and Prosperity: Refugee Art Going Beyond the Performance of Crisis.- 5. Crisis, Common Sense, and Boredom: A Critique of Neoliberal Hegemony in Turkey.- 6. Cultural Narratives of Crisis and Populism in Spain: Metaphors, Nation-branding, and Social Change.- 7. Palestine and the Migrant Question.- 8. Lampedusa in Europe; or Touching Tales of Vulnerability.- 9. Alternative Hospitalities on the Margins of Europe.- 10. Algeria Time and Water Logic: Image, Archive, Mediterranean Futurity.- 11. Greek Weird Wave; Or, On How to Do A Cinema of Biopolitics.- 12. Moving Images, Moving Archives: Fracturing the Crisis in Interactive Greek Documentaries.- 13. Ice-As-Money and Dreams-As-Ice: Christos Ikonomou’s “The Blood of the Orange” and the Critique of Liquidity.- 14. Rethinking Stasis and Utopianism: Empty Placards and Imaginative Boredom in the Greek Crisis-scape.