{"product_id":"tracking-europe-9780822345794","title":"Tracking Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTracking Europe\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”—\u003cb\u003eIain Chambers\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTracking Europe\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”—\u003cb\u003eCaren Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eQuestions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Mobility, Technology, and the Politics of Location in Europe 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Heading for Europe: The Global Itinerary of an Idea 19\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Grand Tour through European Tourism 41\u003cbr\u003e 3. Europe in an Age of Digital Cultural Capitals 61\u003cbr\u003e 4. High-Tech Security, Mobility, and Migration 87\u003cbr\u003e 5. Diasporas in the B-Zones: Artistic Counterterritories 111\u003cbr\u003e Notes 155\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u0026amp; Filmography 181\u003cbr\u003e Index 195","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406057218391,"sku":"9780822345794","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822345794.jpg?v=1730494385","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tracking-europe-9780822345794","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}