Politics of Public Memories of Forced Migration and Bordering in Europe

Karina Horsti is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her scholarship focuses on migration, memory, and media. She works across disciplines and experiments with creative methodologies and multiple modalities in her academic practice.

• 1. Introduction: Border Memories.-2. “True Camps of Concentration”? The Uses and Abuses of a Contentious Analogy.-3. Migratory Angels: The Political Aesthetics of Border Trauma.-4. Curating Objects from the European Border Zone: The “Lampedusa Refugee Boat”.-5. Bearing Witness to Violence at Borders: Intermingling Artistic and Ethnographic Encounters.-6. Resonances of Detention and Migration: Representation Through Sound and Absence in the Installation Retention.-7. Self-Narration, Participatory Video and Migrant Memories: A (Re)making of the Italian Borders.-8. Tracing the Border Crossings of Forced Migrants in Paris’ 18th Arrondissement: Exploring a Photo-Walk Method.