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

Informationen zum Autor Ginette Verstraete Klappentext ""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" Zusammenfassung A critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods! people! services! and capital throughout Europe. It interrogates European discourses on free movement 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Ginette Verstraete
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2010
• EAN: 9780822345794
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4579-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Duke University Press
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories