Mobile Desires: The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice

by Liz Montegary (Editor), Melissa Autumn White (Editor)

Overview

This book combines mobilities research with feminist and queer studies offering new perspectives on mobility justice. It foregrounds academic, activist, and artistic work revealing state-sponsored strategies for managing the mobility of people as mechanisms for aligning erotic and political desires with capitalist and nationalist interests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137464217
Publisher:	Palgrave Pivot
Publication date:	04/29/2016
Series:	Mobility & Politics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	151
File size:	932 KB

About the Author

Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois, USA Abigail Boggs, University of Massachusetts, USA Anne-Marie D'Aoust, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, University of Hawai'I, USA Tristan Josephson, California State University, USA Caren Kaplan, University of California at Davis, USA Jenna M. Loyd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Tamara Vukov, Université de Montréal, Canada Bambitchell, (Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell), artists, Canada

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Erotics and Politics of Mobility Justice; Liz Montegary and Melissa Autumn White
PART I: SECURING SPACES, IM/MOBILIZING DESIRES
1. Moving Violations: Synthetic Hormones, Sexual Deviance, and Gendered Mobilities; Toby Beauchamp
2. Tourism Mobilities, Indigenous Claims, and the Securitization of the Beach; Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
3. 'Whitey on the Moon': Space, Race, and the Crisis of Black Mobility; Jenna M. Loyd
PART II: THE UNFREEDOM OF MOBILITY
4. Hillary Clinton and the NeXXt Generation: On Desiring Mobile Muslim Women Students; Abigail Boggs
5. Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations; Tristan Josephson
PART III: AESTHETIC AND AFFECTIVE RESISTANCES
6. Sounding the Border; A Conversation with Bambitchell
7. Moving Stories: Love at the Border; Anne-Marie D'Aoust
8. Strange Moves: Speculations and Propositions on Mobility Justice; Tamara Vukov
Afterword: Mobile Desires; Caren Kaplan

Editorial Reviews

Mobile Desires is an interesting effort to describe, examine and unsettle the structures and relations of power that mobilise and demobilise individuals and populations. … this reading will be – for all who undertake it – a strong stimulus to scrutinise mobility oppression and to create new ways to destabilise it, with uncertain results, but continuing attempts.” (Belén Rojas Silva, Angelaki, Vol. 22 (2), May, 2017)

“The breadth of the chapters provides an excellent opportunity for readers to be pushed beyond the boundaries that exist even in the fluid world of mobility studies … . The edited volume taken as a whole is inspiring. Those interested in mobility studies and in the friction between the mobility and desires of disparate groups of citizens will find that it challenges some of the familiar gendered and racialized critiques offering a more critical feminist/queer appraisal of mobility justice.” (Liesl Gambold, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 19 (1), February, 2017)

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