Conceptualized as a ‚reading cum critical discussion’ class with close references to different case studies from the field of Visual Anthropology, Migration + Mobility and Gender Studies, this class investigated the role of visual representation such as (social)media, film, art or photography in the (post)migratory regime (Jones 2003).
Basing on the participants’ interests and contributions of case studies, the students engaged with different gendered strategies such as of ‘becoming visible’ as a woman in (post)migratory contexts’ (Meskimmon 2017).
With the particular emphasis on women’s practices and gendered biographies of migration and flight, feminist corporeal-materialisms, and the gendered politics of home and (post)migration in a global world, the class addressed gender-specific migration experiences (Boyd/Grieco 2003) along themes like aesthetics of diasporas (Werbner/Fumanti), forced displacement, and trauma, memory and practices of remembering/commemorating, family and transnational belongings, aging or religion.
Cathrine Bublatzky 