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The imagining and practicing of new shapes of social and political belonging is an aesthetic and performative act. It shifts how we see ourselves and thus how we act and respond. I believe, for instance, that public reactions and political interpretations of this moment of ‘crisis’ both humanitarian and ecological are largely informed by our images and metaphors of who we are, who they are, and how real the boundaries between us are.
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Metzger-Traber, J. (2018). The Politics of Shaping Home. In: If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee. Masters of Peace. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22365-6_5
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