{"id":107,"date":"2020-04-21T13:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/?p=107"},"modified":"2020-04-21T13:44:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:44:12","slug":"on-refugees-and-abjection-in-austurvollur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/2020\/04\/21\/on-refugees-and-abjection-in-austurvollur\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: On Refugees and Abjection in Austurv\u00f6llur"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Emotions like disgust, or in psychoanalytic terms, abjection, is a well-known reaction to people crossing borders. What we in so-called Western societies, believed to be built on universal human rights, need to come to terms with is that the abject \u2014 the stateless refugee who is here but not really (legally) here \u2014 is a product of our own system. They are not outsiders coming in threatening our \u201corder\u201d but results of that \u201corder\u201d; they are the insides becoming visible...<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"4614\" class=\"hs ht ap by hu b ez hv fb hw hx hy hz ia ib ic id dy\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">This text was originally published in <em><a class=\"cl di if ig ih ii\" href=\"https:\/\/nemendafelog.hi.is\/soffia\/byltingur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Byltingur<\/a><\/em>, 05 (2019). It has also been published in an abbreviated and edited version in <em><a class=\"cl di if ig ih ii\" href=\"https:\/\/friktionmagasin.dk\/on-refugees-and-abjection-in-austurv%C3%B6llur-b28b1c534895\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Friktion Magasin<\/a>,<\/em> 18 (2019).<\/p>\n<p>Now I have put it in the public domain so you can <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@olesandberg\/on-refugees-and-abjection-in-austurv%C3%B6llur-34b78ddaf2ef\">read it on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotions like disgust, or in psychoanalytic terms, abjection, is a well-known reaction to people crossing borders. What we in so-called Western societies, believed to be built on universal human rights, need to come to terms with is that the abject &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/2020\/04\/21\/on-refugees-and-abjection-in-austurvollur\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209],"tags":[160543,160544,160545,160542],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-agamben","tag-arendt","tag-kristeva","tag-refugees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/oms6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}