Borders, Bodies and Narratives of Crisis in Europe

​Thanasis Lagios is Teaching Assistant at the University of Athens, Greece.Vasia Lekka is Adjunct Academic Staff at the Hellenic Open University, Greece.Grigoris Panoutsopoulos is Researcher at the University of Athens, Greece.

• 1. Introduction: Within the walls.- 2. “Migrants” vis-à-vis “refugees”: Towards a “rationalisation” of migration control and management.- 3. Opening and closing borders: Capitalism is speeding up.- 4. Borders’ diffusion as a response to the “humanist crisis”: Towards a military-humanitarian nexus.- 5. Borders and bodies in twenty-first-century biopolitical societies: The migrant’s body as carrier of the border.- 6. Conclusion: Facing a circulus vitiosus?.- 7. Exergum.- 8. Discourses on Crisis and Critical Discourse.- 9. The Man Without Qualities in a Universe Full of Quantities.- 10. Genealogy and the Question of the Present: A Conclusion?