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Images are crucial to how ideas and feelings about migrants circulate. In this episode, host Bridget Anderson invites her guests Victoria Hattam and Nariman Massoumi to explore how visual representation relates to the politics of migration. They discuss photographs, film scenes and everyday sights (and sounds!) that open up their thinking on movement and challenge the stereotypical images of migration in the media. Broadening our approach to visual representation can unsettle presumptions about who should and shouldn’t move.
Bios:
Bridget Anderson is Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB) and Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Us and Them: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls.
Victoria Hattam is Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, New York. She works at the intersection of visual and material culture, global political economy, and bordering. Victoria was MMB’s Leverhulme Visiting Professor in 2023-24.
Nariman Massoumi is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Bristol and coordinator of the MMB research challenge Representation, Belonging, Futures. His latest film is ‘Pouring Water on Troubled Oil’ (2023).
Further links for this episode:
Blogposts by Victoria and Nariman on Dover and Calais: Borderland Infrastructures.
Blogpost on Victoria and Nariman’s workshop on visuality: Bordering Bristol: looking to see.
Recordings of Victoria’s Leverhulme lectures, and her image of the landing mat fence on the US-Mexico border: Leverhulme Visiting Professorship.
Credits:
Produced by Migration Mobilities Bristol (MMB)
Edited by Melissa FitzGerald – X @melissafitzg
Music by Olly Shaw – ollyshawmusic.com
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Host Bridget Anderson asks guests Nandita Sharma and Tim Cole what they think of when they hear the word ‘migration’. Humans have always moved so when and why does moving become described as ‘migrating’? What might we miss if we just accept the term ‘migration’ without questioning it? In this lively conversation, taking us across different histories, landscapes, species and state systems, Bridget, Nandita and Tim take on the challenge of unboxing migration and show why this matters for making a more just world.
Bios:
Bridget Anderson is Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol and Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Us and Them: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Nandita Sharma is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is involved in. Nandita was a Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor with MMB in 2022.
Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol. His research ranges across social, landscape and environmental histories with a focus on the Holocaust.
Further links for this episode:
Nandita Sharma’s book Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press, 2020).
MMB’s Race, Nation and Migration blog series.
‘Invasive Others: Plants? People? Pathogens?’ – an interview with Miriam Ticktin on MMB Insights and Sounds.
The (de)Bordering plot at the University of Bristol.
Credits:
Produced by Migration Mobilities Bristol
Edited by Melissa FitzGerald – X @Melissafitzg
Music by Olly Shaw – ollyshawmusic.com
Follow us on:
@MiMoBristol
LinkedIn
Instagram
Facebook
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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