Interesting links, films and articles …
Literature and recent publications:
Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy. Eds. Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett. AFI Film Readers Series. Series Editors: Edward Branigan and Chuck Wolfe. New York: Routledge (2016).
Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent. Eds. Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Tyler. Praxis: Theory in Action Series. Series Editor: Nancy Naples. New York: SUNY Press (2014).
Protesting Citizenship: Migrant Activisms. Eds. Imogen Tyler and Katarzyna Marciniak. New York: Routledge (reprint of the special issue for Citizenship Studies, “Immigrant Protest,” 2014).
Streets of Crocodiles: Photography, Media, and Postsocialist Landscapes in Poland (photography by Kamil Turowski, Introduction by J. Hoberman). Bristol: Intellect, November 2010).
Transnational Feminism in Film and Media (co-edited with Aniko Imre and Aine O’Healy). Comparative Feminist Studies Series (Palgrave, 2007, paperback 2011).
Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile and the Logic of Difference (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). Book nominated by the Press for the 2007 Katherine S. Kovacs Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Film and Media.
Series Editor of Global Cinema for Palgrave Macmillan (with Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy, since September 2010).
Guest-editorship, Special Issue: Citizenship Studies, co-edited with Imogen Tyler. Issue Topic: “Immigrant Protest,” vol. 17:2 (2013).
Guest-editorship, Special Issue: Feminist Media Studies, co-edited with Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy. Issue Topic: “Transcultural Mediations and Transnational Politics of Difference,” vol. 9:4 (2009).
“Legal/Illegal: Protesting Citizenship in Fortress America,” Immigrant Protest. Special issue of Citizenship Studies 17:2 (2013): 260-277.
“Immigrant Protest,” Introduction to the special issue (with Imogen Tyler),Citizenship Studies 17:2 (2013): 143-156.
“Pedagogy of Anxiety,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35:4 (2010): 869-892 (winner of the 2010 MLA Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship).
“Transcultural Mediations and Transnational Politics of Difference,” Introduction to the special issue (with Anikó Imre and Áine O’Healy), Feminist Media Studies9:4 (2009): 385-390.
“Postsocialist Hybrids,” Media Globalization and Postsocialist Identities. Special issue of European Journal of Cultural Studies 12:2 (2009): 173-190.
“Foreign Women and Toilets,” Feminist Media Studies 8:4 (2008): 337-356. [reprinted in Polish: “‘Obce’ i ubikacje,” trans. Michał Szczubiałka, Panoptikum8:15 (2009): 61-82.]
“How Does Cinema Become Lost? The Spectral Power of Socialism,” Via Transversa: Lost Cinema of the Former Eastern Bloc. Special issue of Koht ja paik / Place and Location: Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics VII (2008): 15-28.
„Immigrant Rage: Alienhood, ‚Hygienic‘ Identities, and the Second World,“ Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 17:2 (2006): 33-63.
“New Europe: Eyes Wide Shut,” Emerging Subjects of Neoliberal Global Capitalism. Special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 12:5 (2006): 615-633.
„Transnational Anatomies of Exile and Abjection in Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain,“ Cinema Journal 43:1 (2003): 63-84.
„Cinematic Exile: Performing the Foreign Body on Screen in Roman Polański’s The Tenant,“ Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 43:1 (2000): 1-43.
Abstract:
Although human rights activists estimate that about 20,000 people died at Europe’s borders in the past 20 years, public commemorative performances are scarce. However, participatory culture and media practices afford different kinds of transcultural forms of ‘mnemonic resistance’ against dominant narratives. This presentation examines an Italian online audio-visual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti that documents experiences of contemporary migration in Italy. The archive is an exemplary case of cultural and civic activism that resists cultural amnesia surrounding migrant tragedies. Documentary films and interviews with filmmakers are analysed to examine the ways in which transcultural remembering of those who suffered or lost their lives in European border zones emerges to public sphere through participatory filmmaking.
Literature and recent publications:
„Digital islamophobia: The Swedish woman as a figure of pure and dangerous whiteness“, New Media & Society, forthcoming, accepted for publication.
2017 „Communicative memory of irregular migration: The re-circulation of news images on YouTube“. Memory Studies,forthcoming, accepted for publication.
2016 „Visibility without voice: Media witnessing irregular migrants in BBC online news journalism“. African Journalism Studies, online first.
2016 „Imagining Europe’s borders: Commemorative art on migrant tragedies“. In Lynda Mannik (ed.) Migration by Boat: Discourses of Trauma, Exclusion, and Survival, pp. 83 – 100. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2015 „Techno-cultural opportunities: the anti-immigration movement in the Finnish media environment“. Patterns of Prejudice, 49(4).
2015 „Conditions of cultural citizenship: intersections of gender, race and age in public debates on family migration“.Citizenship Studies 19(6-7): 751 – 767. (Co-authored with Saara Pellander.)
2014 ”National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe. An Introduction.” In K. Horsti, G. Hultén & G. Titley (eds.) National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe, pp. 3 – 18. Bristol: Intellect.
2014 ”The cultural diversity turn: policies, politics and influences at the European level”, in K. Horsti, G. Hultén & G. Titley (eds.) National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe, pp. 43 – 60. Bristol: Intellect.
2014 ”The politics of a multicultural mission: Finland’s YLE in a changing society”, in K. Horsti, G. Hultén & G. Titley (eds.) National conversations: Public Service Media and cultural diversity in Europe , pp. 167 – 183. Bristol: Intellect.
2013 “The ethics of hospitality in changing journalism: The response to the rise of the anti-immigrant movement in Finnish media publicity”, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 16(4): 489 – 504, co-authored with Kaarina Nikunen.
2013 “De-ethnicized victims: Mediatized advocacy for asylum seekers”, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, 14(1): 78 – 95.
2013 “Maahanmuuttajat mediamaisemassa” [Immigrants in the media scape] in T. Martikainen, P. Saukkonen & M. Säävälä (eds.) Muuttoliikkeet, etnisyys ja monikulttuurisuus. [Migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism], pp. 301 – 317. Helsinki: Gaudeamus. (In Finnish.)
2012 “Humanitarian discourse legitimating migration control: FRONTEX public communication”, in M. Messier, R. Wodak & R. Schroeder (eds.) Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 297 – 308. Vienna: Springer Science & Business Media.
„…the subject of migration is inserted into local, national, and transnational imaginaries and regimes of being…pushes us to think transnationally and perhaps question and trouble the methodological nationalism that permeates our understanding of media and migration…The critical challenge is, therefore, not to tell a singular story with a defined beginning and end but to disrupt the power of the linear narrative…to capture the multiplicity of medanings, connections, and collisions that define the politics of global mobility.“
Radha S. Hedge, Mediating Migration, Polity, 2016
Date: April 8th, 2016 from 09:00-11:00 AM
Location: Room 27, Ground floor Neuphilologikum (Brechtbau), Wilhelmstr. 50
About:
Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor at the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Her research and teaching focuses on Transnational Feminist Media Studies. Her research interests include Cinema and Media of Exile and Displacement, Visual Culture, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Migration Studies, Discourses of Nationalism and Globalization, Women and Literature, Postsocialist Cultures, and Critical Pedagogy. She also is co-editor of Global Cinema. Her recently edited two books on Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent (2014) and Protesting Citizenship: Migrant Activisms (2014) together with Imogen Tyler.
Date: April 7th, 2016 from 09:00-11:00 AM
Location: Room 27, Ground floor Neuphilologikum (Brechtbau), Wilhelmstr. 50
Abstract:
Although human rights activists estimate that about 20,000 people died at Europe’s borders in the past 20 years, public commemorative performances are scarce. However, participatory culture and media practices afford different kinds of transcultural forms of ‘mnemonic resistance’ against dominant narratives. This presentation examines an Italian online audio-visual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti that documents experiences of contemporary migration in Italy. The archive is an exemplary case of cultural and civic activism that resists cultural amnesia surrounding migrant tragedies. Documentary films and interviews with filmmakers are analysed to examine the ways in which transcultural remembering of those who suffered or lost their lives in European border zones emerges to public sphere through participatory filmmaking.
About:
Dr. Karina Horsti is Academy of Finland Research Fellow (2014-2019) at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä. Previously she has been Senior Lecturer in Cultural Policy in Jyväskylä and postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism, University of Helsinki (2007-2012). Horsti’s research interests focus on qualitative and critical media studies in the contexts of migration, race/ethnicity, and humanitarian action. Her current research examines public remembering of forced migration and migration tragedies in Europe from which she will report in her speech.
Abstract:
Over the past two decades, research and debate has underscored – and contested – the role of interactive media in facilitating the participation of citizens in the processes of democracy. As countries such as Germany and Sweden have recently faced exceptional numbers of immigrants/asylum seekers, the need to shift focus on media use and the dynamics of democracy has arisen. This presentation will attempt to specify the key communicative spaces, discursive domains, actors and the contingencies involved. A major challenge for our societies is to manage the tension between administrative/functional aspects of integration and the democratic/communicative ones.
About:
Prof. Dr. Peter Dahlgren is Professor Emeritus Media and Communication Studies at Lund University in Sweden. His work focuses on media and democracy, from the horizons of late modern social and cultural theory. This work has been framed by a number of conceptual horizons, including theories of the public sphere and the socio-cultural transitions of late modernity. Among the topics he addresses have been the specific circumstances of young citizens, the evolution of public intellectuals, the use of media in strategies of protest, the changing circumstances of journalism, the significance of cosmopolitanism as an analytic lens for globalized participation, and the subjectivity of civic agency. His most recent book is called “The Political Web. Media, Participation and Alternative Democracy“ (2013) in which he explores contemporary forms of participation such as the Occupy Wall Street movement or online public intellectuals.
Participation in Media Cultures 