Testimonies of a Contemporary Cultural Trauma: Aylan Kurdi and the Migration Flows

Authors

  • Eda Nagayama Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9060.v15isupl.p29-38

Keywords:

Cultural Trauma. Refugees. Migrants. Testimony

Abstract

The migration flows towards Europe are seen here as cultural trauma of a liquid contemporaneity, in the terms of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Among more than 1 million migrants in 2015 just one Kurdish boy had acquired notoriety precisely because of his own death: Aylan Kurdi. The image of his washed up body on a Turkish beach nearby Bodrum was broadly spread, replicated and reappropriated. The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s reading of the original photo is investigated as possibility of facing the trauma, calling for action against oblivion and denial of humanitarian and moral responsibility

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Author Biography

  • Eda Nagayama, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
    doutoranda na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo

Published

2016-09-21

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How to Cite

Testimonies of a Contemporary Cultural Trauma: Aylan Kurdi and the Migration Flows. (2016). Revista De Cultura E Extensão USP, 15(supl.), 29-38. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9060.v15isupl.p29-38