“I believe the world out there will hear it and the suffering will end soon”: Witnessing Refugee Suffering

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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.aup-online.com/content/papers/10.5117/9789048557578/AHM.2022.001" target="_blank" >https://www.aup-online.com/content/papers/10.5117/9789048557578/AHM.2022.001</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048557578/AHM.2022.001" target="_blank" >10.5117/9789048557578/AHM.2022.001</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
“I believe the world out there will hear it and the suffering will end soon”: Witnessing Refugee Suffering
Original language description
This paper is based on my experiences with meeting those who are both eyewitnesses and victims of violence committed at the European border - refugees heading to Europe during and after the “long summer of migration” in 2015. Over those years I tried to collect testimonies of the victims of border violence and war atrocities, mainly to search for the ways in which the media represents their stories in the public space. Based on my stays among border crossers along the Western Balkan (migration) route I will present the limits and possibilities of a visual representation of refugees´ testimonies. Through auto-ethnography I will subsequently apply the concept of witnessing to my experience of “being there”, which proved to be crucial for entering public debates when being identified with authentic voices of voiceless refugees. In the conclusion, I will argue that this moment moves us (as researchers) to the position of implicated subjects who take part in the imaginary war taking place in the fields of politics and humanitarianism.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
AHM Conference 2022: ‘Witnessing, Memory, and Crisis’
ISBN
978-90-485-5757-8
ISSN
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e-ISSN
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
Publisher name
Amsterdam University Press
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Event location
Amsterdam
Event date
Jun 30, 2022
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000865802200001

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