{"id":359,"date":"2020-07-28T07:43:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T07:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/?p=359"},"modified":"2021-10-27T19:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T19:59:13","slug":"the-strangers-case-sir-thomas-more-social-media-and-the-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/2020\/07\/28\/the-strangers-case-sir-thomas-more-social-media-and-the-refugee-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Strangers\u2019 Case\u201d: Sir Thomas More, Social Media and the Refugee Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sir Thomas More<\/em>, a play Shakespeare collaborated on, is back in the news, especially as it resonates with the crisis of human refuge and survival that mark our present times. Actor Ian McKellen, who has a long association with the play, has recited More\u2019s \u201cthe strangers\u2019 case\u201d at several events. Its appropriation has also received some recent critical attention, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/shakespeare\/4123?lang=en#bodyftn8\">Sean Lawrence\u2019s \u201cFear and the Other in\u00a0<em>Sir Thomas More<\/em>\u201c<\/a>. More\u2019s empathetic words are now being mobilised in the context of Trump\u2019s notorious immigration policies. #mountainishinhumanity indeed. Here, I track the speech\u2019s online afterlives and its association with the contemporary refugee crisis. I previously used Storify to curate the posts but Storify closed in May 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Thomas More, a play Shakespeare collaborated on, is back in the news, especially as it resonates with the crisis of human refuge and survival that mark our present times. Actor Ian McKellen, who has a long association with the play, has recited More\u2019s \u201cthe strangers\u2019 case\u201d at several events. Its appropriation has also received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"sam-single-post-1.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sam.maynoothuniversity.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}