This collection of essays explores the idea of the efficacy, limitations and future of Cultural Studies as a theoretical and methodological approach to the analysis of recent crisis phenomena in Europe. The volume spans a wide range of topics, including: theoretical and critical approaches to the stability of the EU as a political and economic union of its 28 member states; the (not only) recent flow of refugees into Europe and other countries, and the refugee tragedies off the coast of Lampedusa; the resurgence of far-right, anti-Islam political groups throughout Europe; the negotiation of affect and crisis phenomena in literary texts; and the question of media and refugees. These and other pressing issues are addressed and discussed from a variety of historical, political, pedagogical, gender, media and aesthetic perspectives, as encompassed in Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Literatures.

The aim of the volume is to arrive at a new working definition of Cultural Studies making culture political again in conjunction with Postcolonial and Gender Studies within a European context. Thus, the papers offer a fresh approach for a discussion of crisis phenomena in the context of complex encounters and conflicts, new regionalisms, emergency diasporas, gender studies, and neo-capitalism/neo-colonialism within a German-Italian framework and beyond.

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Sandten, CecileCecile Sandten is Chair of English Literatures at the Chemnitz University of Technology. Gualtieri, ClaudiaClaudia Gualtieri is assistant professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the University of Milan. Pedretti, RobertoRoberto Pedretti is an independent scholar in the fields of Cultural and Subcultural Studies. Kronshage, EikeEike Kronshage is assistant professor of English Literatures at the Chemnitz University of Technology.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Cecile Sandten, Claudia Gualtieri, Roberto Pedretti, Eike Kronshage
Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe:
Emergency Diasporas and Borderlands 11

Cultural Studies: General Theory, Politics and Pedagogy

Lawrence Grossberg
Making Culture Matter, Making Culture Political 27

Sebastian Berg
Against 'Populism': Protest and Power in a Postpolitical Age 47

Roberto Pedretti
Intellectuals, where are you?
The Crisis of Europe and the Voice of the Intellectuals 61

Federico Tomasello
Urban Riots and "Paper Riots":
Elements for a Critical Discourse Analysis 75

Claudia Gualtieri
Teaching as Cultural Practice:
The Pedagogy of Cultural Studies in Italy 91

Marta Baraldi
The Pedagogy of Borders: Teaching and Learning
Between the Classroom and the Streets 107

Cultures of Precariousness, Borders, Maps and Media

Mala Pandurang
Unmapping Maps: Borders, Territories and the Crisis of Identity 119

Vivien Sommer, Andreas Bischof, Lisa Hübner
Mediatized Migration in Handcrafted Objects: Media Solutions
Through the Eyes and Hands of Refugees in Chemnitz, Germany 133

Stefania Gavin, Simona Taliani, Eleonora Voli
Archives of the Present: How to Represent
Nigerian Motherhood in Italy 149

Alexander Bergmann
Quality of Life in Times of Population Decline
and Economically Challenging Conditions:
What Can We Learn from Civil Society? The Chemnitz Example 165

Henriette Dausend
Street Art: Raising Social Awareness, Globally? 179

Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
'Crisis of Culture': Towards a Transcultural Africa-Europe Paroemiology 195

Writing the Emergency/Writing Crisis

Lidia De Michelis
The Border Spectacle and the Dramaturgy of Hope in Anders Lustgarten's Lampedusa 219

Cecile Sandten
Stuck in Limbo? The Politics of Departure, Arrival and Acculturation in "Fictions of Asylum"
for Children and Young Adults 237

Lidia De Michelis
Challenging Dominant Discourses of Risk and Crisis:
Verbatim Drama and the 2011 British Riots 255

Mandy Beck
Reading Crisis Through Affect: Sarah Hall's How to Paint a Dead Man (2009) 273

Andrei Ionescu
Narrative Strategies of Representing the Environmental Crisis in Ian McEwan's Solar 287

Creative Writing in/and Crisis

Alecia McKenzie
Gone to the Dogs (Madame) 305

Raj R. Rao
Manakarnika Ghat 319

Thaer Ayoub
/Waiting 331

Postscript

Lawrence Grossberg
The Time for/of Cultural Studies 353

Notes on Contributors 357