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If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee

An Embodied Philosophy of Interconnection

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Authors:
  1. Julia Metzger-Traber

    1. UNESCO Chair and MA Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck, Igls-Vill, Austria

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  • Study in the Field of Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation

Part of the book series: Masters of Peace (MAPEAC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Prologue

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 1-3

  3. Introduction to the Research Process

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 5-25

  4. The Borders of Belonging: Mapping the Moment

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 27-38

  5. The Question of Roots: Tracing a History of Thought

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 39-52

  6. The Politics of Shaping Home

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 53-62

  7. The Body Politic

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 63-82

  8. An Emergent Ethic: Sensing Response-ability

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 83-90

  9. A Practice of Paradox: Breathing Life into Theory

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 91-106

  10. Autopoeisis: Co-creating Home in Berlin

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 107-128

  11. (In)conclusions: Leaping into the Abyss

    • Julia Metzger-Traber
    Pages 129-131

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 133-141
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About this book

This book posits that the ‘refugee crisis’ may actually be a crisis of identity in a rapidly changing world. It argues that Western conceptions of the individual ‘Self’ shape metaphors of political homes, and thus the geopolitics of belonging and exclusion. Metzger-Traber creatively re-conceives political belonging by perceiving the interconnection of each ‘Self’ through its most immediate home – the breathing body. On an experimental literary journey through her own past and that of Germany, she puts political philosophy in conversation with somatic and spiritual insight to expand notions of ‘Self’ and 'Home'. Then she asks: What ethical imperatives arise? What kinds of homes and homelands would we create if we no longer thought we ended at our skin?

Authors and Affiliations

  • UNESCO Chair and MA Program for Peace Studies, University of Innsbruck, Igls-Vill, Austria

    Julia Metzger-Traber

About the author

Julia Metzger-Traber is a peace researcher from the MA program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She is engaged in facilitating collaborative public art projects and community restorative justice processes as peace work.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee

  • Book Subtitle: An Embodied Philosophy of Interconnection

  • Authors: Julia Metzger-Traber

  • Series Title: Masters of Peace

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22365-6

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-22364-9Published: 04 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-22365-6Published: 15 May 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2364-463X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2364-4648

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 141

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Political Sociology, Peace Studies

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