A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

by Lauren Markham

Book Overview

"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told--and told ourselves--in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

When and how did migration become a crime? Why does ancient Greece remain so important to the West's idea of itself? How does nostalgia fuel the exclusion and demonization...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593545575
• ISBN13: 9780593545577
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"