Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review“
Tracking Europe is a very timely work that explores some of the most pertinent and problematic issues involved in thinking and rethinking Europe. The book’s merits lie in both the analyses and ethnographic details of specific sites in which Europe is constructed, from port-authority surveillance to tourism and institutionalized cities of culture, and in its critical appropriation of noted studies in the fields of cultural studies and migration studies, theories of travel, and the philosophy of belonging.”—
Iain Chambers, author of
Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity“
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 DisplacementTable of ContentsPreface 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
