Hospitability: The Communicative Architecture of Humanitarian Securitization at Europe's Borders

Chouliaraki, Lilie; Georgiou, Myria

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“…For every moral mistake committed by media producers who inadvertently harm the aid beneficiaries who are subject (or object?) of their representation (e.g., Wright, 2016), there are also achievements to appreciate: from the hospitable island dwellers in Chios openly welcoming refugees (Chouliaraki and Georgiou, 2017) to the concerned YouTube influencers uploading "amateur fundraising" videos on behalf of faraway victims of calamity (Pantti, 2015).…”

Section: Humanitarian Communication and Its Foundational Questionsmentioning

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Toward an ordinary ethics of mediated humanitarianism: An agenda for ethnography

Ong

2019

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article takes stock of the insights and approaches advanced by the last 15 years of critical research in humanitarian communication and distant suffering while arguing for a new agenda for ethnography. Ethnography lays bare the messy and fertile terrains of human experience and disrupts idealized figures of witness and sufferer, aid worker and aid recipient, event and the everyday. Bringing into dialogue the anthropology of aid literature and media and cultural studies, this article proposes three important shifts for future research:(1) a focus on processes rather than principles in production studies of humanitarian communication, (2) a focus on ethics arising from everyday life rather than from events of distant suffering, and (3) and a focus on the lifeworlds of the poor and vulnerable rather than those of witnesses.

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Section: Humanitarian Communication and Its Foundational Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward an ordinary ethics of mediated humanitarianism: An agenda for ethnography

Ong

2019

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…This is a responsibility of ambient threat that prioritises the indiscriminate closing of borders over care for victims of war (Chouliaraki and Georgiou, 2017). While military security is a constitutive dimension of sovereign nation-states, security is also part of the biopolitical apparatus of the media insofar as refugee visualities of aggression and violence legitimise civic dispositions of proactive protection, a "permanent vigilance against global insecurities" (Chandler, 2010: 296).…”

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Rethinking media responsibility in the refugee ‘crisis’: a visual typology of European news

Chouliaraki

Stolic

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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In this paper, we analyse how news images of the 2015 Syrian refugee ‘crisis’ visualise refugees and how, in so doing, they mobilise various forms of moral responsibility in ‘our’ mediated public life – various practical dispositions of action towards the misfortunes of migrants and refugees at Europe’s border. On the basis of empirical material from European news (June-December 2015), we construct a typology of visibilities of the ‘crisis’, each of which situates refugees within a different regime of visibility and claim to action: i) visibility as biological life, associated with monitorial action; ii) visibility as empathy associated with charitable action; iii) visibility as threat, associated with state security; iv) visibility as hospitality, associated with political activism; and v) visibility as self-reflexivity, associated with a post-humanitarian engagement with people like ‘us’. In conclusion, we argue that, important as these five categories of visibility are in introducing public dispositions to action towards the vulnerable, they nonetheless ultimately fail to humanise migrants and refugees. This failure to portray them as human beings with lives that are worth sharing should compel us, we urge, to radically re-think how we understand the media’s responsibility towards vulnerable others.

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“…(Trilling, 2018: 10-11) Like in other academic, policy-oriented and media reporting (e.g. Batha, 2017;Chouliaraki and Georgiou, 2017;Wodak, 2018), the title of this special issue places Fortress Europe between quotation marks. We do this, first, to highlight the starting point of our thinking about Europe, namely, that there is nothing natural or straightforward about 'fortress' being an attribute of Europe.…”

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Everyday practices and the (un)making of ‘Fortress Europe’: Introduction to the special issue

Engelbert

Awad

Sterkenburg

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The borders of Europe are erected and guarded through cultural practices as much as through border control and security technologies. Cultural Studies have been crucial in revealing how everyday, particularly media-oriented practices, make and unmake this 'Fortress'. Yet, until now, the focus has been mostly on how migrants use or are represented through media discourses and technologies. This introduction essay argues that the signifier 'Fortress Europe'-and its central premise of restraining mobility for some in order to enable freedom for others-also gains meaning in and through sociocultural practices that we may not (as) immediately associate with the physical crossing of European borders. Particular practices that are discussed in this introduction and examined in the seven original articles of the special issue are: public opinion research, the public mobilization of emotions, negotiating identity in an 'ancestral homeland', the consumption of (sports) media, the production of a radio talk show and film archives, as well as the activist use of social media. Broadening scholarly attention to these kinds of sociocultural practices provides an important addition to understanding how power operates across social spheres and discursive orders. In addition, their identification also offers valuable opportunities to understand how and why some practices are particularly pertinent or effective in cementing or destabilizing Fortress Europe. This line of inquiry is visible throughout this special issue, despite the diversity of theoretical frameworks and empirical sites used in the contributing articles.

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Hospitability: The Communicative Architecture of Humanitarian Securitization at Europe's Borders

Cited by 45 publications

References 14 publications

Toward an ordinary ethics of mediated humanitarianism: An agenda for ethnography

Toward an ordinary ethics of mediated humanitarianism: An agenda for ethnography

Rethinking media responsibility in the refugee ‘crisis’: a visual typology of European news

Everyday practices and the (un)making of ‘Fortress Europe’: Introduction to the special issue

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