Chapter 4 Global Warming and Climate Refugees: Facts, “Alternative Facts” and the State of Emergency

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Configurations of Migration 1
5. Section A: Visualizing Migration
6. Chapter 2 Imagining Migration In-Between: A Conversation with Charl Landvreugd 17
7. Chapter 3 “Migrating Reflections” on Misafir (2017) 27
8. Chapter 4 Global Warming and Climate Refugees: Facts, “Alternative Facts” and the State of Emergency 41
9. Chapter 5 Images of Migration: The Ethics and Perils of Visual Representation 55
10. Chapter 6 On Empathy and Migratory Relationalities: A Conversation with Mieke Bal 67
11. Section B: Writing Migration
12. Chapter 7 “The Most Outcast Réfugié!” Knowing Migration in Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s The Réfugié (1824) 81
13. Chapter 8 Western Migrants in Hong Kong: Neo-Imperial Gothic and the Literary Imagination of Reverse Domination 103
14. Chapter 9 Knowledges and Morals: Narrating Consequences of Colonial Migration in Uwe Timm’s Morenga (1978) 121
15. Chapter 10 “No narrative to make sense of what had happened”: The Genres of Narrating Migration during the Yugoslav Wars in English-Speaking Literature 135
16. Chapter 11 You Can’t Breathe Water 153
17. Section C: Performing Migration
18. Chapter 12 Archive-Repertoires of Memory: Knowing Migration Through Shailesh Bahoran’s Dance 161
19. Chapter 13 Performing Migration: Želimir Žilnik and Medial (Self-)Representations of “Guest Workers” in the 1970s 181
20. Chapter 14 Walking the Land: Theatre, Landscape and Britain’s Migratory Past in Black Men Walking 197
21. Chapter 15 Concluding Remarks: (Strange) Migratory Encounters 219
22. Notes on Contributors 225
23. Index 227