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OverviewAffective Bordering is an incisive exploration of the emotional politics of migration and borders. Billy Holzberg dives into the intricate interplay between emotions and migration governance, revealing how emotions work to reinforce racial, sexual, and national hierarchies. Examining pivotal events in Germany during the aftermath of the misnamed 'refugee crisis' in Germany, the book traces the construction of different emotions during key events of this period. Challenging the assumption that positive emotions like hope and empathy necessarily work as a counter to negative emotions like anger or fear, Affective Bordering reveals the racial grammars of deservingness that shape border governance today. Bringing together queer feminist theories of affect with postcolonial border and migration studies, the book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the reproduction and contestation of borders in today's world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Billy HolzbergPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9781526172303ISBN 10: 1526172305 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 23 July 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Affective bordering and the racial grammars of deservingness 1 Hope: ‘Wir schaffen das’ beyond the humanitarian border 2 Empathy: Affective solidarity and the limits of German welcome culture 3 Anger: The sexual politics of resentment after New Year’s in Cologne 4 Shame: Public shaming in the shadow of Holocaust guilt 5 Fear: Great replacement ideologies as paranoid border politics Conclusion: Shifting grammars of affective bordering References Index -- .ReviewsA brilliant, original and indispensable book for today’s world! Focusing on Germany, Billy Holzberg convincingly directs our attention to the centrality of affect in the politics of migration and borders – not just to policy or law. He disrupts common sense by showing how both negative and positive emotions such as empathy work to reproduce the racialization of the German nation-state. As one of the new leading voices on the intersections of migration studies and queer and transnational feminism, Holzberg compellingly shows that those interested in addressing the deadly violence of borders must expand our affective and political grammars towards discomfort – only then will we be able to imagine alternatives to nationalism and violence. Miriam Ticktin, Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Centre As Angela Merkel proclaimed that ‘we can do this’, Germany stood as an exception in Europe, and she made clear that rationality and emotions were not incompatible. Billy Holzberg’s queer feminist reading, from Alan Kurdi’s death to sexual violence in Cologne, powerfully focuses on the affects mobilized. From hope and empathy to anger and fear, it incisively reveals how, paradoxically, ‘positive’ as well as ‘negative’ affects jointly contribute to bordering, i.e. drawing a line between ‘us’ and ‘them’, subjects and objects of affects respectively. Éric Fassin, Professor of Sociology, Université Paris 8 -- . Author InformationBilly Holzberg is Assistant Professor of Social Justice at King's College London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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