Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes From Crisis to Critique

“The book … sets the ambitious goal to bring new meaning to this word and restore its semantic multiplicity. … it offers a rich overview of the most important theoretical scholarship on the subject … it concretely provides the reader with the means to reread and rethink contemporaneity under new points of view. In this sense, the book constitutes one of the most evident manifestations of the indispensable political role of cultural studies, and by extension, of contemporary humanities.” (Francesca Zaccone, Journal of Greek Media & Culture, Vol. 8 (1), 2022)

Maria Boletsi is Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Assistant Professor in Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of  Barbarism and Its Discontents  (2013) and co-author of  Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature and the Arts  (2018).

Janna Houwen is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of  Film and Video Intermediality: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images  (2017) and co-editor of  Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines  (2018).

Liesbeth Minnaard is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. She is the author of  New Germans, New Dutch: Literary Interventions  (2008) and co-editor of Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism  (2014).