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Tracking Europe – Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location

Autor Ginette Verstraete
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2010
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 free movement for everyone and a utopian unity-in-diversity in light of contemporary debates and practices in Europe, social and cultural theories, historical texts, media representations, and critical art projects. Before turning to contemporary tourism and migration, she considers ideas of Europe, belonging, and citizenship developed by Rousseau, Napoleon, Kant, and Derrida, and she explores the history of tourism in Europe from the eighteenth-century Grand Tour to the present. Verstraete examines the extensive, high-tech promotion of tourism undertaken by the European Union and member countries as well as by regions and municipalities. She discusses the rhetoric surrounding high-profile events such as the European Union’s designation of nine cities as Capitals of Culture in 2000. Each city was expected to present its cultural uniqueness—from spirituality (Cracow) and creativity (Avignon) to nature (Reykjavik) and technology (Helsinki)—while also emphasizing unity through joint promotions and events. Europe’s ongoing investment in tourism stands in sharp contrast to its treatment of immigrants and refugees. Increased migration has been accompanied by ever more stringent regulations concerning migrant labour, family reunion, and the right to acquire citizenship. Human smuggling has grown in response. Border control, security measures, and criminal investigations have heightened, abetted by the quick transmission of images and information. Verstraete studies these and other productions of mobility and immobility as they relate to the inclusions and exclusions of a European community. She concludes by examining video art projects that critique contemporary Europe; Verstraete was involved in B-Zone: Becoming Europe and Beyond, a video exhibit focused on Europe’s expansion to the East.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822345794
ISBN-10: 082234579X
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 16 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

“Tracking Europe is a very timely work that explores some of the most pertinent and problematic issues involved in thinking and rethinking Europe. The book’s merits lie in both the analyses and ethnographic details of specific sites in which Europe is constructed, from port-authority surveillance to tourism and institutionalized cities of culture, and in its critical appropriation of noted studies in the fields of cultural studies and migration studies, theories of travel, and the philosophy of belonging.”—Iain Chambers, author of Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity

“Tracking Europe is an important book, very relevant to current world affairs. Ginette Verstraete transposes political and economic issues into a critical space of engagement with culture and the arts in a theoretically innovative and lively manner.”—Caren Kaplan, author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

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""Tracking Europe" is an important book, very relevant to current world affairs. Ginette Verstraete transposes political and economic issues into a critical space of engagement with culture and the arts in a theoretically innovative and lively manner."--Caren Kaplan, author of "Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement"

Notă biografică

Ginette Verstraete

Descriere

A work of cultural theory addressing how European identity is defined in terms of mobility