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Borders of desire: Gender and sexuality at the Eastern borders of Europe (Rethinking Borders) - Hardcover

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9781526165213: Borders of desire: Gender and sexuality at the Eastern borders of Europe (Rethinking Borders)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 152616521X ISBN 13: 9781526165213
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Borders of desire takes a novel approach to the study of borders: rather than seeing them only as obstacles to the fulfillment of human desires, this collection focuses on how borders can also be productive of desire. Based on long-term ethnographic engagement with sites along the eastern borders of Europe, particularly in the Baltics and the Balkans, the studies in this volume illuminate how gendered and sexualized desires are generated by the existence of borders and how they are imagined. As the chapters show, borders can create new desires expressed as aspirations, resentments, and actions including physical movements across borders for pleasure or work, or collective enactments of political ideals or resistance. The collection also shows how the persistent east/west symbolic border continues to act as a source of these desires in European political and social life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Elissa Helms is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna

Tuija Pulkkinen is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki

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'Within a literature and dominant political discourse that overwhelmingly continue to view borders as obstacles, this book regards borders as performative: it asks what borders ‘do’, rather than what they ‘are’. By asking how borders produce – rather than only thwart – desires, the authors look afresh at the many ways gender and sexuality are at issue in border crossing.'
Jane Cowan, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Sussex

Borders of desire takes a novel approach to the study of borders: rather than seeing them only as obstacles to the fulfillment of human desires, this collection focuses on how borders can also be productive of desire.


Based on long-term engagement with sites along the eastern borders of Europe, particularly in the Baltics and the Balkans, the studies in this volume illuminate how gendered and sexualised desires are generated by the existence of borders and how they are imagined. The book takes a performative approach, emphasising not what borders are, but what borders do – and, in this case, what they produce. Borders are thus treated less as artefacts of desires and more as sources of desire: a border’s existence, which marks a difference between here and there, can trigger imaginations about what might be on the other side, creating new desires expressed as aspirations, resentments, actions, movements, political ideals or resistance. As the chapters show, sometimes these desires spring from orientalising imaginaries of the other, sometimes from economically inspired fantasies of a different life, and sometimes from ethnosexual projections or reimaginings of political pasts and futures. Taken as a whole, Borders of desire offers new perspectives on the work borders do, as well as on the gendered and sexed lives of those in and from the eastern borders of Europe, and the persistent East/West symbolic divide that continues to permeate European political and social life.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
152616521X
ISBN 13 
9781526165213
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
200
Herausgeber
Helms Elissa, Pulkkinen Tuija
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