Verstraete Ginette Verstraete

Tracking Europe (eBook, PDF)

Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracking Europe is a bold interdisciplinary critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. Ginette Verstraete interrogates European discourses on unlimited movement for everyone and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary social practices, cultural theories, historical texts, media representations, and critical art projects. Arguing against the persistent myth of borderless travel, Verstraete shows the discourses on Europe to be caught in an irresolvable contradiction on a conceptual level and in deeply unsettling asymmetries on a performative level. She asks why the age-old notion of Europe as a borderless space of mobility goes hand-in-hand with the at times violent containment and displacement of people.In demystifying the old and new Europe across a multiplicity of texts, images, media, and cultural practices in various times and locations, Verstraete lays bare a territorial persistence in the European imaginary, one which has been differently tied up with the politics of inclusion and exclusion. Tracking Europe moves from policy papers, cultural tourism, and migration to philosophies of cosmopolitanism, nineteenth-century travel guides, electronic surveillance at the border, virtual pilgrimages to Spain, and artistic interventions in the Balkan region. It is a sustained attempt to situate current developments in Europe within a complex matrix of tourism, migration, and border control, as well as history, poststructuralist theory, and critical media and art projects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 217
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391364
• Artikelnr.: 54815735

Autorenporträt

Ginette Verstraete is Professor and Chair of Comparative Arts and Media at Vrije University Amsterdam. She is the author of Fragments of the Feminine Sublime in Friedrich Schlegel and James Joyce and an editor of Placing Mobility, Mobilizing Place: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Mobility, Technology, and the Politics of Location in Europe
1
1. Heading for Europe: The Global Itinerary of an Idea 19
2. A Grand Tour through European Tourism 41
3. Europe in an Age of Digital Cultural Capitals 61
4. High-Tech Security, Mobility, and Migration 87
5. Diasporas in the B-Zones: Artistic Counterterritories 111
Notes 155
Bibliography & Filmography 181
Index 195