Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other
Dietmar Regensburger, Nikolaus Wandinger (Hg.)
ISBN 978-3-99106-100-7
brosch., 392 Seiten, zahlr. Farbabb., engl.
2023, innsbruck university press • iup
Preis: 32,90 Euro
Im Juli 2019 veranstaltete das Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) seine Jahrestagung an der Universität Innsbruck, die sich mit den Herausforderungen der globalen Migration beschäftigte. ExpertInnen aus vielen Bereichen kamen zusammen, um das Problem der Migration zu diskutieren und mit Hilfe der mimetischen Theorie zu beleuchten. Das Thema Migration ist eine große Herausforderung: Wie nehmen wir den Anderen wahr – den Anderen, der aus einem fremden Land einwandert, den Anderen, der anders denkt und sich anders verhält als „wir“, oder den Anderen, der diese Welt ganz und gar transzendiert und den die Religionen „Gott“ nennen? Im Bewusstsein, dass die Vorstellungskraft ein mimetischer Prozess ist, versuchen die AutorInnen dieses Bandes, verschiedene Aspekte dieser komplexen Verstrickung zu beleuchten, indem sie fragen, wen oder was wir mit „dem Anderen“ meinen: den Fremden und den Migranten, den Bruder oder die Schwester, die Natur, die uns umgibt oder sich uns entzieht, den transzendenten Anderen. In den drei Teilen dieses Buches wird die mimetische Theorie eingesetzt, um die Vorstellung des Anderen und die Herausforderungen der Migration zu analysieren, um die Politik der Migration zu veranschaulichen, indem besondere Probleme und Fallstudien betrachtet werden, und um die Vorstellung des Anderen zwischen Ausgrenzung und Anbetung zu untersuchen.
In July 2019, the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) held its annual conference at the University of Innsbruck dealing with the challenges of global migration. Experts from many fields gathered to discuss the problem of migration, and to elucidate it with the help of mimetic theory. However, the migration theme can be read as part of a larger challenge: how do we perceive the other – the other who migrates from a foreign land, the other who thinks and behaves differently than “we” do, or the other who transcends this world altogether, and whom the religions call “God”? Aware that imagination is a mimetic process, the contributors to this volume try to illuminate different aspects of this complex entanglement, asking whom or what we mean by “the other”: the stranger and migrant, the brother or sister, nature that envelops or defies us, the transcendent Other.
The three parts of this book employ mimetic theory to analyze the imagination of the other and the challenges of migration, to illustrate the politics of migration, looking at particular problems and case studies, and to probe the imagination of the other between exclusion and adoration.
DOI: 10.15203/99106-100-7
Table of Contents
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Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger
Introduction
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Part One: Imagination of the Other and the Challenge of Migration
Jean-Marc Bourdin
We Are all Migrants
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Wilhelm Guggenberger
Encounter versus Imagining in Times of Migration
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Andreas Th. Müller
A Tale of Stranding, Solidarity and Security: Perspectives from EU Asylum Law
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Matthew Packer
Mimesis & Migration in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, and Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow
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Part Two: Politics of Migration: Particular Problems and Case Studies
Gilles Reckinger
Trans-Mediterranean Migration and the Exploitation of African Mobile Workers in Southern Italy
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Domèbèimwin Vivien Somda
Immigration from Africa to Europe: Transforming Tragedy into Drama according to René Girard and Raymund Schwager
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Timon Ochieng Odeny
Theo-Political Challenges Concerning the Relations of Somali Migration in Kenya: An exploration of the dynamics at the core of imagining “the Other”
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Iván Camilo Vargas Castro
Border citizenships: Justice and hospitality in the border region between Colombia and Venezuela
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Miguel Rolland
Migration and Identity Appropriation in Ancient Mesoamerica
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Roberto Solarte and Camila Esguerra
Sharks, Angels or others like us: How migrants acquire the double-face of the sacred
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Part Three: The Imagination of the Other between Exclusion and Adoration
Raja Sakrani
Images of the Other in Islam: Is there an Islamic Mimeticism?
DOI: 10.15203/99106-100-7-13
Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Entangled Theo-Politics of Fear: The Rivalling Constructions of “Europe” and “Islam” in Contemporary European Discourse
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Nidesh Lawtoo
The Patho-Logies of Exclusion: Politics, Media, (New) Fascism
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Antonio Machuco Rosa
Mimetic Desire, Exclusion, Polarization in Social Digital Networks
DOI: 10.15203/99106-100-7-16
Kathleen Vandenberg
Mimetic Consumption of the World: Social Media and Overtourism
DOI: 10.15203/99106-100-7-17
Sherwood Belangia
Mimesis and the Piety of Socrates
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Tania Checchi González
Time, the City and the Other: Girard and Levinas on Babel
DOI: 10.15203/99106-100-7-19
James Columcille Dever
Envy Loves to Hide: John Chrysostom Unmasking Envy on Cain’s Fallen Face, our Fallen Nature
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Nikolaus Wandinger
“No One has Ever Seen God”: How to Imitate the Wholly Other
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Mathias Moosbrugger
Beyond Caravaggio’s Revenge: On the (Im-)Possibility of Teaching Others from Socrates to Józef Niewiadomski
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Wolfgang Palaver
Virginia Woolf ’s Novel To the Lighthouse in the Light of Józef Niewiadomski’s Understanding of the Eucharist
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