Mocking the Border: Strategies of Creative Resistance through the Digital
Mazzara, F. 2025. Forthcoming. Mocking the Border: Strategies of Creative Resistance through the Digital . European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Mazzara, F. 2025. Forthcoming. Mocking the Border: Strategies of Creative Resistance through the Digital . European Journal of Cultural Studies.
| Title | Mocking the Border: Strategies of Creative Resistance through the Digital |
|---|---|
| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Mazzara, F. |
| Abstract | This article is interested in identifying forms of creative digital resistance to a prevailing logic of border enforcement aimed at curbing undocumented human movement. These forms of resistance serve to underscore the porosity of borders and the irrational violence that increasingly defines their global management. This phenomenon is perpetuated through policies, rhetorical strategies, speech acts and media narratives that contribute to a toxic discourse of exclusion, effectively immobilising movement. From the perspective of this article, visual forms of resistance serve as a means to ‘mock’ the border, and to enact a form of carnivalesque resistance that subverts and liberates the functional meaning of borders, transforming them into arenas of creative and critical resistance. This article undertakes and analysis of two instances of aesthetic production that mock the border, one originating from the US-Mexico border and another from the Mediterranean border. |
| Keywords | border |
| migration | |
| aesthetics | |
| carnivalesque | |
| resistance | |
| Journal | European Journal of Cultural Studies |
| ISSN | 1367-5494 |
| 1460-3551 | |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publisher | Sage |