Departures
An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies
Victor Bascara author Yen Le Espiritu author Khatharya Um author Lan Duong author Ma Vang author Lila Sharif author Nigel Hatton author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:15th Nov '22
Should be back in stock very soon
Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees.
"Departures works best as a critical manifesto ‘by and for refugees.’ Bold and provocative, it will not fail to spark conversations in the coming years." * Review of International American Studies *
"Departures illuminates us in a brave and stimulating way on many layers and levels. The authors of this influential book succeed in eloquently articulating how to dishonour and dismantle not only dated methodologies to understand refugee issues but also the treatment of refugees." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"This compact book performs two significant functions for the field of critical refugee studies: it provides a name for a growing body of critical analyses of the forced displacement of people by conflicts, their experiences of forced migration, and the history and discourse of the humanitarian sector, and it claims a refugee-centered and critical feminist place in the scholarly literature. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *
"Departures represents both an excellent introduction to Critical Refugee studies and something like a refugee manifesto. It is an unabashed polemic against the dehumanization of refugees and a forceful demonstration of the unlimited value and contributions of refugees themselves in terms of—but not limited to—knowledge and cultural production, world views, narratives, and more." * American Literary History *
ISBN: 9780520386389
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 15mm
Weight: 272g
202 pages