In the increasingly surveilled space of the Mediterranean Sea, migrants engage in types of mobility that exclude them from a global sea commons. In Errant mobilities, Aguiar interprets mobility and the migrant subject by examining contemporary cultural works depicting maritime bordering space. Aguiar identifies an 'errant mobility,' a mode of movement that is erroneous, roving and wandering, that falls outside regulatory norms and therefore the protections afforded within authorised travel. She analyses works that focus on the passage of migrants, including humanitarian rescue documentaries, human rights digital projects, visual art incorporating salvaged objects and experimental film and literature refiguring navigation and geography. Aguiar reads these representations of movement and loss to mark an alternative subjectivity and a radical politics of movement that give rise to new decolonial imaginaries.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Marian Aguiar
EAN: 9781526193124
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES: 192
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 234 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Manchester University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2026-12-08
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GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Immigration & Emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees
WIDTH: 156 mm
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Book Themes:
Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality, Cultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration
Marian Aguiar is Associate Professor in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University