The Sexual Politics of Border Control
The Sexual Politics of Border Control conceptualises sexuality as a method of bordering and uncovers how sexuality operates as a key site for the containment, capture and regulation of movement. By bringing together queer scholarship on borders and migration with the rich archive of feminist, Black, Indigenous and critical border perspectives, it highlights how the heteronormativity of the border intersects with the larger dynamics of racial capitalism, imperialism and settler colonialism; reproductive inequalities; and the containment of contagion, disease and virality.
Transnational in focus, this book includes contributions from and about different geopolitical contexts including histories of HIV in Turkey; the politics of reproduction in Palestine/Israel; settler colonialism and anti-Blackness in the United States; the sexual geographies of the Balkan and Southern Europe; the intimate politics of marriage migration between Vietnam and Canada; and sex work in Australia, the United States, France and New Zealand. This collection constitutes a key intervention in the study of border and migration that highlights the crucial role that sexual politics play in the reproduction and contestation of national border regimes.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Billy Holzberg is Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Social Justice at Kings College London, UK. Billys current research examines the role that emotions play in the reproduction and contestation of the European border regime. His research interests include theories of affect and emotion, gender and sexuality, postcolonialism, racialisation, critical migration and border studies and the politics of representation.
Anouk Madrin is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Anouk researches the surveillance and security architecture of the European border regime from a postcolonial perspective. Her research interests include visual and digital culture, media theory, postcolonialism, border studies, racial capitalism, the history of technology and gender and sexuality.
Michelle Pfeifer is doctoral candidate at the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, USA. Michelles research examines the role of media technologies in the formation, practices, affects and operations of European border regimes. Michelles research interests include (digital) media studies, sound studies, gender and sexuality studies and critical border studies.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editor: John Solomos, University of Warwick, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries and fields of scholarship, and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It is now available in both printed and electronic forms. Since 2015 it has published 15 issues per year, three of which are dedicated to Ethnic and Racial Studies Review offering expert guidance to the latest research through the publication of book reviews, symposia and discussion pieces, including reviews of work in languages other than English.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Race and Ethnicity in Pandemic Times
Edited by John Solomos
Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel
Edited by Tamir Sorek
The Sexual Politics of Border Control
Edited by Billy Holzberg, Anouk Madrin and Michelle Pfeifer
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The Sexual Politics of Border Control
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Contents
Billy Holzberg, Anouk Madrin and Michelle Pfeifer
2 Radical sovereignty, rhetorical borders, and the everyday decolonial praxis of Indigenous peoplehood and Two-Spirit reclamation
Ian Khara Ellasante
3 Blackness, biopolitics, borders: African immigration, racialization, and the limits of American exceptionalism
Brenda N. Sanya