2026/05/21 by Ananya Bhardwaj · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Computer Science · Psychology · #Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies #Digital Education and Society #Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
paper · pdf · doi:10.25071/1920-7336.41933
openalex publication_date 2026/05/21 · openalex created_date 2026/05/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Castaways is an autobiographical collection of Bastianutti's speeches, his academic and personal writings, artworks from his private collection, and family photographs.Rather than presenting a unified argument, the book unfolds as a constellation of texts written between 1996 and 2024, allowing the reader to trace both continuity and transformation in Bastianutti's thinking.Read together, these materials span a period marked by the aftermath of the Cold War, the intensification of global migration, and the growing securitization of borders, situating Castaways within broader debates on exile, displacement, and asylum.This collection engages with scholarly debates and conversations in critical refugee studies, diaspora studies, and displacement metaphors, not by offering a linear or historical arc but rather by foregrounding the refugee experience through narrative, visual art, and personal reflection, therefore broadening the scope of what constitutes the experience of displacement.In this way, the figure of the castaway emerges as both protagonist and central metaphor: a subject suspended in