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Taking as a starting point studies on the biopolitics of bordering, as well as media studies, this article explores how information campaigns deter potential migrants and refugees from leaving their countries depict them in very specific ways, operating as 'new bordering practices' that are in conjunction with extraterritorial border policies. This article probes this question through the example of a specific information campaign – Aware Migrants (2016) – funded by the Italian Government and managed by International Organization for Migration (IOM) to dissuade potential newcomers from attempting the journey across the Mediterranean Sea. As the analysis of Aware Migrants makes clear, it contributes to normalizing a transnational imaginary into a militarized borderscape comprising places of violence and death, exploitation and detention, which is part of the complex dichotomies of care and control, proper of contemporary border regimes. Finally, the article sheds light on how these symbolic bordering practices contribute to nurturing a 'compassionate repression' that increasingly and silently legitimizes the difference between the 'us' (the figure of the citizen) and the 'them' (the figure of the foreigner).

Il saggio analizza il rapporto paradossale tra vecchi e nuovi media, con particolare riferimento a come questi ultimi trasformano la vita politica contemporanea e i modi di esercitare la democrazia. Muovendo dall'analisi della serie televisiva britannica Black Mirror, e in particolare analizzando la performance artistica messa in atto nel primo episodio all'interno di un format tipico del reality show, il saggio rileva gli effetti allarmanti che i nuovi media hanno sulle nostre vite, interrogandosi al contempo su chi davvero possa essere considerato oggi il detentore della capacità di esercitare il potere nella società in rete.

Raising questions about how vulnerable "others" are represented in our mediated culture, and whether such a spectacle of suffering has the power to move us to action, the essay investigates what kinds of aesthetic, ethical, and political challenges are connected with the mediatization of humanitarian space in the neoliberal age. Focusing on the communication techniques used to generate empathy between the spectator and the suffering subject, the paper moves from Lilie Chouliaraki's The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism and Susie Linfield's The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence to explore the complex relationship between the visual media, the needs of victims, and public attention, and unveils the many paradoxes intrinsic to the link between contemporary politics of humanitarianism and the government of human beings.

Despite the variety of banalities that are often associated with trips and vacations as mass consumption, the study of tourism – due to the commitment of social, economic, political and cultural energy - remains one of the predominant inputs for understanding contemporary society and the new social hierarchies that distinguish it. Tourism, which is increasingly seen as a process that has become integral to social and cultural life, also plays an essential role in the social and spatial dialectic that gives meaning to the places. Focusing tourism through the lens of "productive consumption" developed by Cultural Studies, the paper moves from the assumption that responsible tourism can be analyzed in the broader paradigm of relational goods to explore the role of responsible tourism as a possible way of sustainable and responsible development.A pesar de la variedad de banalidades que a menudo se asocian con los viajes y las vacaciones, como el consumo de masas, el estudio del turismo –debido al compromiso de la energía social, económica, política y cultural– sigue siendo una de las fuentes predominantes para la comprensión de la sociedad contemporánea y las nuevas jerarquías sociales que la distinguen. El turismo, que se está viendo cada vez más como un proceso que forma parte integral de la vida social y cultural, también juega un papel esencial en la dialéctica social y espacial que da sentido a los lugares. Analizando el turismo desde el punto de vista del consumo productivo desarrollado por los estudios culturales, el artículo parte de la asunción de que el turismo responsable puede ser analizado en el paradigma más amplio de bienes relacionales para explorar el papel del turismo responsable como una forma posible de desarrollo sostenible y responsable.

Despite the variety of banalities that are often associated with trips and vacations as mass consumption, the study of tourism – due to the commitment of social, economic, political and cultural energy – remains one of the predominant inputs for understanding contemporary society and the new social hierarchies that distinguish it. Tourism, which is increasingly seen as a process that has become integral to social and cultural life, also plays an essential role in the social and spatial dialectic that gives meaning to the places. Focusing tourism through the lens of «productive consumption» developed by Cultural Studies, the paper moves from the assumption that responsible tourism can be analyzed in the broader paradigm of relational goods to explore the role of responsible tourism as a possible way of sustainable and responsible development. ; A pesar de la variedad de banalidades que a menudo se asocian con los viajes y las vacaciones, como el consumo de masas, el estudio del turismo –debido al compromiso de la energía social, económica, política y cultural– sigue siendo una de las fuentes predominantes para la comprensión de la sociedad contemporánea y las nuevas jerarquías sociales que la distinguen. El turismo, que se está viendo cada vez más como un proceso que forma parte integral de la vida social y cultural, también juega un papel esencial en la dialéctica social y espacial que da sentido a los lugares. Analizando el turismo desde el punto de vista del consumo productivo desarrollado por los estudios culturales, el artículo parte de la asunción de que el turismo responsable puede ser analizado en el paradigma más amplio de bienes relacionales para explorar el papel del turismo responsable como una forma posible de desarrollo sostenible y responsable.

In a world divided by inequalities and on the verge of human extinction caused by climate change, we invoke security against the threat of immigration, perceived as a threatening disorder. In implementing all the devices designed to protect "us" and exclude "them", we believe in the illusion that it is sufficient to consolidate our fortresses to cope with the pressure of migratory flows. Yet we forget that there can be no humanity without hospitality. Exploring the tension between globalization processes and the spectacularisation of borders, the book invites us to rethink hospitality in the mediapolis as a cultural and political issue, offering concrete tools to amplify the voices of the protagonists of migration and create architectures so that their voices can be heard. Because we are all migrants, have been or may become migrants.

Although the distinction between migrant and tourist is artificial — linked to statistical, juridical and economic definitions used to delimit the travel and hospitality sector — these words are associated with conflicting and often opposite images, stereotypes and emotions. On the one hand, migrants or refugees are usually perceived as dead weights, carriers of anguish and danger, to be rejected as a social problem. On the other hand, tourists or travelers are depicted as opportunities, special guests to be accommodated in comfortable places, as bearers of a positive economic value. Aiming at going beyond a mere critique of kinetophobia (fear of movement) and of the different forms it takes, the essay invites to question the "residentialist" foundations of the nation-state and to develop a new understanding of the interaction between mobility and belonging. By exploring the symbolic meanings and political implications that the migrant / tourist categories carry with them, the essay maps the emergence of a world where freedom of movement is the main factor of social stratification. Finally, the essay introduces the reflections presented in this volume, highlighting how the different and complementary disciplinary perspectives of the essays collected not only call into question the conceptual categories that define the practice of traveling and the experience of diversity, but they contribute to developing new perspectives on mobility understood as a total social phenomenon. ; Sebbene la distinzione tra migrante e turista sia artificiale – frutto di definizioni statistiche, normative e fiscali utilizzate per delimitare il settore del viaggio e dell'ospitalità – a queste parole si associano immagini, stereotipi ed emozioni contrastanti, spesso opposte. Da un lato, i migranti o rifugiati percepiti come pesi morti, portatori di angoscia e pericolosità, da respingere in quanto problema sociale. Dall'altro, i turisti o viaggiatori descritti come ospiti da accogliere in luoghi confortevoli, quali portatori di un plusvalore immediato, in primis economico. Con l'intento di andare oltre una mera critica della cinetofobia (paura del movimento) e delle diverse forme che questa assume, il saggio invita a rimettere in discussione le fondamenta "residenzialiste" dello Stato-nazione e a sviluppare una nuova comprensione dell'interazione tra mobilità e appartenenza. Esplorando i significati simbolici e le implicazioni politiche che le categorie migranti/turisti si portano dietro, il saggio mappa l'emergere di un mondo dove la libertà di movimento è il principale fattore di stratificazione sociale. Infine, il saggio introduce le riflessioni presentate in questo volume, evidenziando come le prospettive disciplinari diverse e complementari dei saggi qui raccolti non solo rimettono in discussione le categorie di pensiero con le quali si definisce la pratica del viaggio e l'esperienza della diversità, ma contribuiscono a sviluppare nuove prospettive sulla mobilità intesa come un fenomeno sociale totale.