Mobile Desires: The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice (Mobility & Politics)

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. The authors place the field of mobilities research in conversation with feminist and queer studies to offer new ways of thinking about mobility justice. While much mobility scholarship seeks to transform the structures that unevenly distribute mobility across populations, mobilities research rarely engages theories of affect and embodiment and thus misses the opportunity to consider the mobility of desires and desiring subjects. In contrast, this edited collection foregrounds academic, activist, and artistic work that unpacks the ways in which state-sponsored strategies for managing the physical movement of people function as mechanisms for aligning erotic and political desires with capitalist and nationalist interests. Through an examination of immigration and asylum regimes, international education exchanges, global tourism industries, and local policing practices, this volume advances a set of critical practices designed to understand and, ideally, unsettle the systems of power allocating mobility rights and the capacity to control where, when, and how one's body moves

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. Edited By Liz Montegary And Melissa Autumn White. Includes Bibliogrpahical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv The Politics and Erotics of Mobility Justice: An Introduction....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Moving Violations: Synthetic Hormones, Sexual Deviance, and Gendered Mobilities....Pages 16-27 Tourism Mobilities, Indigenous Claims, and the Securitization of the Beach....Pages 28-40 ‘Whitey on the Moon’: Space, Race, and the Crisis of Black Mobility....Pages 41-52 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 Hillary Clinton and the NeXXt Generation: On Desiring Mobile Muslim Women Students....Pages 54-66 Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations....Pages 67-79 Front Matter....Pages 80-80 Sounding the Border....Pages 81-93 Moving Stories: Love at the Border....Pages 94-107 Strange Moves: Speculations and Propositions on Mobility Justice....Pages 108-121 Afterword: Mobile Desires....Pages 122-127 Back Matter....Pages 128-151 Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Series Editors’ Foreword 9 Acknowledgments 11 Notes on Contributors 13 An Introduction 16 Part I Securing Spaces, Im/mobilizing Desires 30 1 Moving Violations: Synthetic Hormones, Sexual Deviance, and Gendered Mobilities 31 2 Tourism Mobilities, Indigenous Claims, and the Securitization of the Beach 43 3 ‘Whitey on the Moon’: Space, Race, and the Crisis of Black Mobility 56 Part II The Unfreedom of Mobility 68 4 Hillary Clinton and the NeXXt Generation: On Desiring Mobile Muslim Women Students 69 5 Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations 82 Part III Aesthetic and Affective Resistances 95 6 Sounding the Border 96 7 Moving Stories: Love at the Border 109 8 Strange Moves: Speculations and Propositions on Mobility Justice 123 Afterword: Mobile Desires 137 Bibliography 143 Index 162