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Bordering intimacy: Postcolonial governance and the policing of family (Theory for a Global Age) - Softcover

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Turner, Joe

 
9781526163745: Bordering intimacy: Postcolonial governance and the policing of family (Theory for a Global Age)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1526163748 ISBN 13: 9781526163745
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Bordering intimacy explores the interconnected role of borders and dominant forms of family intimacy in the governance of postcolonial states. Combining a historical investigation with postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, the book reveals how the border policies of the British and other European empires have been reinvented for the twenty-first century through appeals to protect and sustain 'family life' - appeals that serve to justify and obfuscate the continued organisation of racialised violence. The book examines the continuity of colonial rule in numerous areas of contemporary government, including family visa regimes, the policing of 'sham marriages', counterterror strategies, deprivation of citizenship, policing tactics and integration policy. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joe Turner is a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of York

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‘Turner’s book is both extraordinary scholarship and an unparalleled contribution at this critical juncture. It skilfully merges disparate areas of inquiry – imperial/colonial histories, intimate "family" relations, racial states, biosecurity regimes, migration/border politics – into an unprecedented but urgently needed "conversation" that illuminates crises of personal/national/global significance.’
V. Spike Peterson, Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona

They say that love has no borders. But in the twenty-first century, being in love, or more specifically having a family life, is increasingly done at the discretion of immigration regimes. This book explores the role played by the concept of ‘family’ in border control – where it came from and how it functions today.

Drawing on historical and contemporary cases, the book demonstrates how dominant forms of familial intimacy informed the development of borders under European empire. Employing postcolonial, decolonial and black feminist theory, it addresses contemporary concerns regarding the politics of borders, mobility and citizenship by situating these processes in histories of colonial racism and sexuality, from slavery to the present day. Struggles over who is recognisable as ‘family’ or who is capable of ‘real love’ continue to structure attitudes to belonging, control and even life and death. As the book shows, Eurocentric conceptions of ‘family’ are bound up with the reproduction of colonial power.

Bordering intimacy will appeal to anyone engaged with the ongoing legacies of colonial power and race. It contributes to key public and scholarly debates on mobility and borders across international sociology, politics, international relations and political geography.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526163748
ISBN 13 
9781526163745
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Anzahl der Seiten
308
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