Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location (Book)

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• Number of Pages: 224
• ISBN: 0822345633
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113577572
• Release Date: January 1, 2010
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"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 unresolvable 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.

Demystifying the old and new Europe across a multiplicity of texts, images, media, and cultural practices in various times and locations, Verstraete lays bare an enduring 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. Along the way, European studies is taken into the field of cultural studies. At the same time, Verstraete incisively couples the study of (European) mobility to questions about migration and diaspora. "Tracking Europe" is a sustained attempt to situate the current developments in Europe within a rich fabric not only of daily debates and practices of tourism, migration, and border control, but also of history, poststructuralist theories, and critical media and art projects.

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