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Care and cruelty in Chios: the ‘refugee crisis’ and the limits of Europe

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posted on 2023-06-09, 17:45 authored by Malcolm JamesMalcolm James
Focusing on Chios, at the start of 2016, and my experience there as a volunteer, this paper aims to understand the forms of violence that unfolded in that location and considers what they mean for the social and political transformation of Europe. Violence takes many forms, but in this paper I focus on cruelty – specifically, modern, colonial and racial acts of excessive violence committed without regard for the victim. Secondly, the paper develops a feminist and postcolonial analysis of care. This analysis is concerned with acts of empathy, responsibility and relation that acted as correctives to cruelty. The paper shows how cruelty and care are intertwined and how their quotidian workings reveal wider patterns of violence and responsibility. However, rather than reiterate that care is ensnared in cruelty, this paper defends care’s autonomy, vitality and centrality to an alternative humanist ethics.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Ethnic and Racial Studies

ISSN

0141-9870

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

14

Volume

42

Page range

2470-2489

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  • Media and Film Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-05-08

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-11-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-05-08

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