Mobile Desires

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.

Autorentext
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

Inhalt

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