Elina Penttinen, Anitta Kynsilehto

Gender and Mobility

A Critical Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Our world is characterized by mobility. The number of refugees on the global scale has increased considerably. Meanwhile border control measures and legal avenues for mobility have been severely curbed, and the political climate has become all the more violent against racialized and gendered "Others". Business elites traverse the fast-track lines to financial hubs and tourists discover new destinations. Ageing societies need people from abroad to perform care work. Domestic workers carve out nearer and further paths to reach employment, often leaving their family members behind in need of care. This book examines global mobilities from gendered perspectives, asking how gender together with race/ethnicity, social class, nationality and sexuality shape globally mobile lives. By developing analysis that cuts through economic structures, policies and individuals enacting agency, the book demonstrates how intersectional feminist analysis helps to comprehend uneven mobilities. Through multidisciplinary angle the book draws examples from different parts of the world and refuses to provide easy answers. Calling for students, scholars and general readers alike, the book invites the reader to imagine and relate to the world in manifold ways.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781786602688
• ISBN-10: 1786602687
• Artikelnr.: 46009335

Autorenporträt

Docent Elina Penttinen is a University Lecturer in Gender Studies, University of Helsinki. She has published widely on globalization and sex-trafficking, new security agency in the context of civilian crisis management, gendered experience of war and compassion-based methodology. She leads a multidisciplinary research project on experience of violence and develops feminist analysis on healing trauma. She is the author of Joy and International Relations: a new methodology (2013) Routledge, Globalization, Prostitution and Sex-Trafficking: corporeal politics (2008) Routledge. She teaches courses on feminist methodology, scientific writing and gender studies and supervises doctoral thesis projects in Gender, Culture and Society doctoral programme. Her areas of expertise are feminist methodology, creative analytic writing, contemplative pedagogy and research on violence.

Inhaltsangabe

Critical Introduction
1. Intersectional Approaches to Human Mobility
2. Globally Mobile Life
3. Global Political Economy and Global Mobility
4. Policing Borders and Boundaries
5. Abuse Crime and Mobility
6. Re-imaging Global Mobilities
Bibliography
Index