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A Solitary Solidarity: Conditions For Attunement In The "Migration Crisis" In Greece, Katherine Sheese
A Solitary Solidarity: Conditions For Attunement In The "Migration Crisis" In Greece, Katherine Sheese
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In this dissertation I draw on ethnographic field work and qualitative interviews with activist volunteers in Greece in 2016 to explore the conditions for ethical and affective attunement in the face of crisis and complicity. I offer a thick description of the multiple injuries to one’s senses and sensemaking capacities and the contradictions, tensions, dilemmas that undermine the capacity for attunement, a term I use to refer to the overlapping abilities to feel, to be moved, and to locate oneself and to connect to others. I begin by developing a contextual analysis of the complex and contradictory machinery of …