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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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 202
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Critical Refugee Studies
Publication Date:
04 October 2022
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520386365
Format: Hardcover
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
The Critical Refugee Studies Collective is a group of interdisciplinary scholars who advocate for and envision a world where refugee rights are human rights. Committed to community-engaged scholarship, the Collective charts and builds the field of critical refugee studies by centering refugee lives—and the creative and critical potentiality that such lives offer. In addition to studying refugees, many Collective members are themselves refugees with long and deep ties to refugee communities in California and beyond.
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities
Introduction: Departures
1. A Refugee Critique of the Law: On "Fear and Persecution"
2. A Refugee Critique of Fear: On Livability and Durability
3. A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism: On Ungratefulness and Refusal
4. A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity
Conclusion: In/Verse
Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR
Notes
References
Index
Prologue: A Letter to Our Communities
Introduction: Departures
1. A Refugee Critique of the Law: On "Fear and Persecution"
2. A Refugee Critique of Fear: On Livability and Durability
3. A Refugee Critique of Humanitarianism: On Ungratefulness and Refusal
4. A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity
Conclusion: In/Verse
Epilogue: A Letter to UNHCR
Notes
References
Index