Behrouz Boochani

Freedom, Only Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani
Redaktion: Mansoubi, Moones; Tofighian, Omid

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness to the suffering and degradation inflicted on him and his fellow refugees, culminating eventually in his prize-winning book - No Friend but the Mountains. In the articles, essays, and poems he wrote while detained, he emerged as both a tenacious campaigner and activist, as well as a deeply humane voice which reflects the indignity and plight of the many thousands of detained migrants across the world.

In this book Boochani's collected writings are combined with essays from experts on migration, refugee rights, politics, and literature. Together, they provide a moving, creative and challenging account of not only one writer's harrowing experience and inspiring resilience, but the wider structures of violence which hold thousands of human beings in a state of misery in migrant camps throughout Western nation-states and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755642670
• Artikelnr.: 65446121

Autorenporträt

Behrouz Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, scholar, cultural advocate and filmmaker. Boochani was a writer and editor for the Kurdish language magazine Werya in Iran. He is a Visiting Professor, Birkbeck Law School; Associate Professor in Social Sciences at UNSW; non-resident Visiting Scholar at the Sydney Asia Pacific Migration Centre (SAPMiC), University of Sydney; Honorary Member of PEN International; and winner of an Amnesty International Australia 2017 Media Award, the Diaspora Symposium Social Justice Award, the Liberty Victoria 2018 Empty Chair Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya award for journalism. He publishes regularly with The Guardian, and his writing also features in The Saturday Paper, Huffington Post, New Matilda, The Financial Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Boochani is also co-director (with Arash Kamali Sarvestani) of the 2017 feature-length film Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time; and collaborator on Nazanin Sahamizadeh's play Manus. His book, No Friend But The Mountains: Writing From Manus Prison won the 2019 Victorian Prize for Literature in addition to the Nonfiction category. He has also won the Special Award at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year, and the National Biography Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Foreword by Tara June Winch Writing in Languages of Freedom
by Omid Tofighian Map Part One 2013-2015 - 'Fighting to Take Back My
Identity': Creating a New Language in Collaboration "Becoming MEG45" by
Behrouz Boochani "Unpublished Reports: Untitled and Two Souls, One Body" by
Behrouz Boochani "Translating Manus and Nauru: Refugee Writing" by Moones
Mansoubi "Collaborating with Behrouz Boochani: Journalists Against a
System" by Ben Doherty Part Two 2016 (Feb-April) - A New Theory: Examining
the Prison, Exposing the System "This is Manus Island. My Prison. My
Torture. My Humiliation" by Behrouz Boochani "Life on Manus: Island of
Damned" by Behrouz Boochani "Australia, Exceptional in its Brutality" by
Behrouz Boochani "Testifying to History" by Jordana Silverstein Part Three
2016 (June-Dec) - Journalism as Minor Epics: Confrontation, Survival and
Death "What it's Like in Solitary Confinement on Manus Island" by Behrouz
Boochani "For Refugees Kidnapped and Exiled to the Manus Prison, Hope is
Our Secret Weapon" by Behrouz Boochani "Untitled" by Behrouz Boochani "The
Day My Friend Hamid Khazaei Died" by Behrouz Boochani "Faysal Ishak Ahmed's
Life was Full of Pain. Australia Had a Duty to Protect Him" by Behrouz
Boochani "Time and Borders, Policy and Lived Experience: A Posthumanist
Critique" by Sajad Kabgani "Kurdish Identity and Journalism: Reporting to
Record History" by Roza Germian Part Four 2017 (Mar-Sept) - Introducing the
Kyriarchal System: Knowing Manus Prison "A Kyriarchal System: New Colonial
Experiments/New Decolonial Resistance" by Behrouz Boochani "Unpublished
Report: Untitled" by Behrouz Boochani "An Island off Manus" by Behrouz
Boochani "The Tortuous Demise of Hamed Shamshiripour, Who Didn't Deserve to
Die on Manus Island" by Behrouz Boochani "'The Man Who Loves Ducks': The
Refugee Saving Animals on Manus" by Behrouz Boochani "Epistemic Violence,
Aesthetic Breaks, and the Man Who Loves Ducks" by Anne McNevin "Exposing
'Incalculable Cruelty': Writings on Border Harms and Atrocity as
Resistance" by Victoria Canning Part Five 2017 (Oct-Dec) - The Siege on
Manus Prison: 23 Days of Collective Resistance "Days Before the Forced
Closure of Manus We Have No Safe Place to Go" by Behrouz Boochani "Diary of
Disaster" by Behrouz Boochani "The Refugees Are in a State of Terror on
Manus"bu Behrouz Boochani "A Merciless Fear Provoked by Last Night's Events
has Gripped the Manus Island Camp" by Behrouz Boochani "Manus is a
Landscape of Surreal Horror" by Behrouz Boochani "The Breath of Death on
Manus Island: Starvation and Sickness" by Behrouz Boochani "All We Want is
Freedom - Not Another Prison Camp" by Behrouz Boochani "I Write from Manus
as a Duty to History." By Behrouz Boochani "A Letter from Manus Island" by
Behrouz Boochani "23 Days of Resistance Alongside Behrouz Boochani" by
Shaminda Kanapathi "Words That Escaped from Prison" by Erik Jensen Part Six
2018 (Feb-June) - A Duty to History: Dignity, Time and Identity "Four Years
After Reza Barati's Death, We Still Have No Justice" by Behrouz Boochani
"Policy of Exile" by Behrouz Boochani "Mohamed's Life Story is a Tragedy.
But it's Typical for Father's Held on Manus" by Behrouz Boochani "The Gay,
Transgender and Biosexual men on Manus are Forced into Silence" by Behrouz
Boochani "Salim Fled Genocide to Find Safety. He Lost his Life in the Most
Tragic Way" by Behrouz Boochani "Manus Island Poem" by Behrouz Boochani
"Journalism, Borders and Oppression: The Nauru Context" by Elahe Zivardar
and Mehran Ghadiri "On Mothers, Nature and the Body" by Fatima Measham
Part Seven 2018 (Aug)-2019 (Apr) - Manus Prison Theory: Creating a Body of
Knowledge "Manus Prison Theory" by Behrouz Boochani "Australia Needs a
Moral Revolution" by Behrouz Boochani "Five Years in Manus Purgatory" by
Behrouz Boochani "'Sam Could Have Been Saved': Where Does the Money for
Healthcare Go on Manus?" by Behrouz Boochani "The Paladin Scandal is Only a
Drop in the Ocean of Corruption on Manus and Nauru" by Behrouz Boochani
"The 'Papua New Guinea Solution' in Australia's Public Discourse and Human
Rights Activism" by Mahnaz Alimardanian "Australian Corruption and the
Pacific: Dollars, Displacement and Death" by Helen Davidson Part Eight
2019 (May-Oct) - Writing to Keep Hope Alive/New Dimensions to Systematic
Torture "This Election is an Opportunity to Vote for Humanity and Freedom"
by Behrouz Boochani "'The Boats are Coming' is One of the Greatest Lies
Told to the Australian People" by Behrouz Boochani "The truth about
self-harm in offshore detention" by Behrouz Boochani "Purification by Love"
by Behrouz Boochani "Emotion, Responsibility and Hope for Different
Futures" by Claudia Tazreiter "Prison Notebooks and the Oceanic-Kurdish
Connection: Boochani's Political Reflectivity" by Steven Ratuva Part Nine
2020 (May-June) - New Narratives and Knowledge: New Writing and
Collaboration "As I learn to live in freedom, Australia is still tormenting
refugees" by Behrouz Boochani "'A Human Being Feels They Are On a
Precipice': COVID-19's Threshold Moment" by Behrouz Boochani and Omid
Tofighian "Boochani's 'Political Poetics': Subverting and Reimagining the
Fiction of Politics" by Anne Surma "Journalism as Dialogue: Creating
Collective Activism Through the Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani" by
Lida Amiri Part Ten 2020 (Sept) - Neocolonial experiments/Creative
resistance "For the refugees Australia Imprisons Music is Liberation, Life
and Defiance" by Behrouz Boochani "'White Australia' Policy Lives On in
Immigration Detention" by Behrouz Boochani "On Documentation, Language, and
Social Media" by Arianna Grasso "Carceral Coloniality as a History of the
Present" by Helena Zeweri List of Contributors