Género, emplazamiento y desplazamiento: la in/movilidad transnacional y el campo de refugiados en Baby Zero de Emer Martin

Autores/as

  • Aida Rosende-Pérez University of the Balearic Islands

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2021-10061

Palabras clave:

In/movilidad transnacional, campo de refugiados/as, género, desplazamiento forzado, Emer Martin

Resumen

Este artículo analiza el espacio del campo de refugiados/as en Baby Zero (2007), tercera novela de la autora irlandesa Emer Martin. El campo se constituye en la novela, al igual que en la realidad, como un emplazamiento crítico en relación a la in/movilidad transnacional; un espacio que simultáneamente acoge a personas que han sido desplazadas forzadamente de su hogar, mientras que al mismo tiempo las retiene ejerciendo un papel determinante en la contención de flujos migratorios. Partiendo de esta premisa, el campo se examinará aquí como ejemplo significativo de la necropolítica (Mbembe) que precariza de forma extrema las vidas de las poblaciones desplazadas, hasta el punto de empujarlas a lo que Agamben llama “la nuda vida”, poniendo además en primer plano la imperiosa necesidad de abordar estas cuestiones desde una perspectiva de género. Así, este análisis evidencia no sólo que el emplazamiento en una situación de desplazamiento importa (Hyndman 25), sino también que tanto uno como otro están atravesados por el género, y traen consigo formas específicas de violencia derivadas de la extrema vulnerabilidad social de las mujeres y las niñas en zonas de conflicto y también en los campos que han de proporcionarles refugio.

Biografía del autor/a

Aida Rosende-Pérez, University of the Balearic Islands

Aida Rosende-Pérez is Lecturer in English at the University of the Balearic Islands. Her research has focused principally on the politics and poetics of transnational feminism, specializing in transnational women’s literature and cultural production and paying special attention to the narratives and (audio)visual productions of contemporary Irish women writers and artists. Her research interests also include questions of embodiment, new materialisms, world literatures, film and television studies, and most especially affect studies in relation to feminist and anti-racist cultural practices (literature, cinema, TV, visual arts) in the context of neoliberal globalization. She is currently a member of the project “Bodies in Transit: Difference and Indifference in Globalized Cultures”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science Education and Universities; as well as the regional project “Poéticas del Activismo: Interseccionalidades Literarias y Culturales en Lengua Inglesa en el mundo contemporáneo” (Comunitat Valenciana). She is co-director of the book series Studies in Gender Violence (Edicions UIB); and Managing Editor of Oceánide (Journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture).

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Publicado

17-03-2021

Cómo citar

Aida Rosende-Pérez. (2021). Género, emplazamiento y desplazamiento: la in/movilidad transnacional y el campo de refugiados en Baby Zero de Emer Martin. Estudios Irlandeses, 16(1), 68–78. https://doi.org/10.24162/EI2021-10061