In this evocative and poignant book, Parvati Nair uncovers stories, recalls memories and explores visual narratives, or what she calls the photo-politics of displacement. It is a timely exposure of the precarity of mobility and the complexity of belonging. The focus is on the Mediterranean, the liquid border between North and South, as this site is, once again, a source of much tragedy. Photographs are now ubiquitous with everyday life. However, Nair shows us how they can still shock and reshape our public imagination.
-- Nikos Papastergiadis, University of Melbourne.
This wide-ranging and profound book is a parable of our times. It demonstrates lucidly the entanglement of visual dynamics with the pervading issues of the day - climate emergency, displacement and migration - and their defining violence and precarity. The volumes multi-layered focus on the larger Mediterranean region gives it both a contemporary urgency and a historical depth, so often missing from debates. At the centre is the work of photographs.
-- Elizabeth Edwards, De Montfort University and University College London.
