What is it about?
This is a book review of Ipek Celik's In Permanent Crisis which provides this background while analysing a selection of recent films by European auteur directors in light of the contemporary European migrant crisis.
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Why is it important?
What is presented in this book as ‘a permanent crisis’ is a situation, a state of mind, or even a media presence, in a time where the media severely restrict the representation of the identities of ethnic minorities in Europe: they become either perpe- trators or victims of violence, especially in relation to crisis situations.
Perspectives
Writing this review, I was able to show how Celik admirably connects the study of genre with the growing field of affect theory in visual and diaspora studies. In sum, In permanent crisis is itself a project of emancipation, which allows for the creation of new subjectivities to be assigned to European migrants, too often misrepresented in media as being violent and being the cause of crises.
Dr. Murat Akser
University of Ulster
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This page is a summary of: Temporality of the dispossessed, Cultural Studies, October 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2017.1388416.
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