Autore
Horsti, Karina

Titolo
Civil investigation of a migrant disaster as a cultural intervention against injustice
Periodico
Studi culturali
Anno: 2021 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 263 - Pagina finale: 282

This article examines three cultural productions about the so-called Tragedy of Lampedusa of 2013 that treat the disaster as an event-as-such. I discuss two plays by Antonio Umberto Riccò (Germany) and a documentary video by Antonio Maggiore (Italy), which I describe as civil investigations of the disaster. These productions exemplify how individuals in the cultural field can respond when authorities misrepresent events. I first develop the notion of civil investigation to capture a form of cultural intervention to correct an injustice. I show how civil investigation is both a product and a producer of civil imagination – a capacity to see the world in terms of conviviality. Second, I argue that cultural genres such as plays and films, which require a longer production time than journalism, are also more enduring in cultural circulation.



SICI: 1824-369X(2021)2<263:CIOAMD>2.0.ZU;2-S
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1405/101885
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