Picturing Migrants
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Picturing Migrants
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Author : James R. Swensen
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-10
Picturing Migrants written by James R. Swensen and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10 with History categories.
As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. That novel and those photographs, as this book shows, share a history. Fully exploring this complex connection for the first time, Picturing Migrants offers new insight into Steinbeck’s novel and the FSA’s photography—and into the circumstances that have made them enduring icons of the Depression. Looking at the work of Dorothea Lange, Horace Bristol, Arthur Rothstein, and Russell Lee, it is easy to imagine that these images came straight out of the pages of The Grapes of Wrath. This should be no surprise, James R. Swensen tells us, because Steinbeck explicitly turned to photographs of the period to create his visceral narrative of hope and loss among Okie migrants in search of a better life in California. When the novel became an instant best seller upon its release in April 1939, some dismissed its imagery as pure fantasy. Lee knew better and traveled to Oklahoma for proof. The documentary pictures he produced are nothing short of a photographic illustration of the hard lives and desperate reality that Steinbeck so vividly portrayed. In Picturing Migrants, Swensen sets these lesser-known images alongside the more familiar work of Lange and others, giving us a clearer understanding of the FSA’s work to publicize the plight of the migrant in the wake of the novel and John Ford’s award-winning film adaptation. A new perspective on an era whose hardships and lessons resonate to this day, Picturing Migrants lets us see as never before how a novel and a series of documentary photographs have kept the Great Depression unforgettably real for generation after generation.
Picturing Immigration
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Author : Athanasia Batziou
language : en
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Release Date : 2011
Picturing Immigration written by Athanasia Batziou and has been published by Intellect (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Greece categories.
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Greece and Spain saw an influx of immigrants from developing nations. And as their foreign populations grew, both countries' national media were there to document the change - in the process shaping perceptions of the immigrant groups by their new countries and the world.Picturing Immigration offers a comparative study of the photojournalistic framing of immigrants in these two southern European nations, which were recently transformed from senders to receivers of migrants. Going beyond traditional media analysis, it focuses on images rather than text to explore a host of hot topics, including media representation of minorities, immigration and stereotypes." -- back cover.
African Migrants And Europe
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Author : Lorenzo Rinelli
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-09-16
African Migrants And Europe written by Lorenzo Rinelli and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-16 with Political Science categories.
The process of migration control mirrors the trajectories of the people who traverse national boundaries, making today’s borders flexible and fluid. This book explores the transformation of migration control in the post 9/11 era. It looks at how border controls have become more diffuse in the face of increased human flows from Africa and presents a critical analysis of the dispositif of European migration control, including detention without trial, derogation of human rights law, torture, "extraordinary rendition", the curtailment of civil liberties and the securitization of migration. By examining the role of Gaddafi’s Libya in the last ten years as a gendarme of Europe, it argues for a re-visioning of borders and frontiers in ways that can account for their dialectical nature, and for the dialectical nature of political life. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European studies, African studies, security studies, international relations, global studies, comparative politics, cultural geography, migration studies and border theory.
Citizens Without Borders
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Author : Brigitte Le Normand
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2021
Citizens Without Borders written by Brigitte Le Normand and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Foreign workers categories.
This book examines Yugoslavia's efforts to build and maintain a relationship with its migrant workers in Western Europe through cultural and educational programs.
Moving Matters
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Author : Susan Ossman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-09
Moving Matters written by Susan Ossman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-09 with Social Science categories.
Moving Matters is a richly nuanced portrait of the serial migrant: a person who has lived in several countries, calling each one at some point "home." The stories told here are both extraordinary and increasingly common. Serial migrants rarely travel freely—they must negotiate a world of territorial borders and legal restrictions—yet as they move from one country to another, they can use border-crossings as moments of self-clarification. They often become masters of settlement as they turn each country into a life chapter. Susan Ossman follows this diverse and growing population not only to understand how paths of serial movement produce certain ways of life, but also to illuminate an ongoing tension between global fluidity and the power of nation-states. Ultimately, her lyrical reflection on migration and social diversity offers an illustration of how taking mobility as a starting point fundamentally alters our understanding of subjectivity, politics, and social life.
America S West
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Author : David M. Wrobel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-12
America S West written by David M. Wrobel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-12 with History categories.
This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.
Picturing Poverty
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Author : Cara A. Finnegan
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Release Date : 2003-03-17
Picturing Poverty written by Cara A. Finnegan and has been published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-17 with History categories.
Working for the government's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, photographers set out across the country to capture the human face of the Depression. Picturing Poverty examines how popular magazines used these images to construct complex and often contradictory messages about poverty. By striving to understand the original context of the photographs, Finnegan shines new light on the meanings of poverty, the Depression, and the various roles of the media.
Contact Zones
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Author : Justin Carville
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Contact Zones written by Justin Carville and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with Photography categories.
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.
Imagining Home
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Author : Diana Cavuoto Glenn
language : en
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Release Date : 2011
Imagining Home written by Diana Cavuoto Glenn and has been published by Wakefield Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Social Science categories.
The peer-reviewed essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore the facets of migration and the consequences of displacement on the lives of those individuals who undertake the experience. The volume analyses how migrants experience and express the complex nature of migration, and how this event affects and transforms lives and communities.
Retroactivity And Contemporary Art
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Author : Craig Staff
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Retroactivity And Contemporary Art written by Craig Staff and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
Contemporary art is often preoccupied with time, or acts in which the past is recovered. Through specific case studies of artists who strategically work with historical moments, this book examines how art from the last two decades has sought to mobilize these particular histories, and to what effect, against the backdrop of Modernism. Drawing on the art theory of Rosalind Krauss and the philosophies of Paul Ricoeur, Gerhard Richter, and Pierre Nora, Retroactivity and Contemporary Art interprets those works that foreground some aspect of retroactivity – whether re-enacting, commemorating, or re-imagining – as key artistic strategies. This book is striking philosophical reflection on time within art and art within time, and an indispensable read for those attempting to understand the artistic significance of history, materiality, and memory.