150026 20251017144633.0 doi 10.1177/02633957231165220 sideral 133739 ART-2023-133739 eng Casas-Cortés, Maribel Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-9390-4022 A corona-carnival? A carnivalesque interpretation of (im)mobilities under COVID-19 lockdowns 2023 The soviet social theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin developed the theory of the carnivalesque as a logic of exaggeration, inversion and irony. Beyond carnival events themselves, Bakhtin proposed this logic as a creative instance to foresee openings within an assumed normality. The conceptual gaze of the ‘carnivalesque’ helps to rethink the reconfiguration of actors and practices around mobility, borders and migration during the initial lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. This impasse worked as a corona-carnival in the midst of the current mobility regime. The use of ‘carnivalesque’ in this article is not related to the playful aspects of carnival as a parade, but to the potential of the carnivalesque impasse for envisioning alternatives, which are not necessarily emancipatory but deeply ambivalent, grotesque and unfinished. That carnivalesque momentum, marked by social norms placed on pause, is captured in artistic and linguistic production, acting as a collective legacy for imagining futures otherwise. This paper compiles some keywords which emerged during the corona-carnival impasse, each holding hopeful and dystopian glimpses of possible alterations to the status-quo. These linguistic productions question assumed notions and practices of migration management, opening the social imagination to other ways of engaging with human mobilities. info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 2.1 2023 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 41 / 166 = 0.247 2023 Q1 T1 POLITICAL SCIENCE 90 / 318 = 0.283 2023 Q2 T1 0.851 2023 Political Science and International Relations 2023 Q1 5.5 2023 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Cobarrubias, Sebastian (orcid)0000-0003-0337-8271 4009 775 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Sociología 44, 2 (2023), 284-301 POLITICS POLITICS 0263-3957 197043 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150026/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1410722 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150026/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:150026 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:27:44 ARTICLE