Refugee Voices

Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition

Rob Sharp

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Routledge
12 March 2024

Media studies; Refugees & political asylum; Migration, immigration & emigration

This book explores how participatory creative production can allow refugees to be recognised in emotional, legal and social ways. It also explains how decisions around participation in these forms of creative production can equally exclude refugee voices from the public sphere, inhibit recognition, and in fact lead to refugee misrecognition.

Building on the concept of ‘performative refugeeness’, it considers how refugee voices are ambivalently enacted in alternative forms of media and considers the differences between the refugee voices expressed in and beyond them, in contexts surrounding their creation. Furthermore, it analyses the forms of refugee voices expressed in such creative projects, which encompass fiction, photography, video, audio, and/or drawing—in linear, as well as ‘messy’ and ‘interrupted’ ways—and assesses how promises of offering a voice might claim to have been fulfilled in such cases.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of migration and refugee studies, media and culture studies, performance studies and communication studies.

By: Rob Sharp
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781032536798
ISBN 10: 1032536799
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction and Context 2. Methodology and Ethics 3. Refugee Self-Representation: Beyond Heroes and Villains 4. (Mis-)Recognition, Trust and Solidarity 5. Participation in Creative Mediation 6. Conclusion. Appendix.

Rob Sharp is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He has degrees from Cambridge University and the University of London, and a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Reviews for Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition

“A truly original and important insight into refugee voice, the book calls for deeper understanding of its different manifestations and restrictions. Centred in refugees’ own creative practices and reflexive engagement with the media, Refugee Voices opens up a space for students and scholars to interrogate the politics of resettlement and recognition for those seeking safety after their forced migration.” — Myria Georgiou, Professor, Dept of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science “Rob Sharp’s Refugee Voices: Performativity and the Struggle for Recognition provides meaningful insights into the convoluted processes that shape the visibility of refugee voices within public institutions. Through a conceptually rich and rigorous analysis, the book opens up new research directions for a better understanding of performative refugeeness in highly regulated settings.” — Sara Marino, Senior Lecturer, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London