Mobile Desires

Toby Beauchamp, University of Illinois, USA Abigail Boggs, University of Massachusetts, USA Anne-Marie D'Aoust, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, University of Hawai'I, USA Tristan Josephson, California State University, USA Caren Kaplan, University of California at Davis, USA Jenna M. Loyd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Tamara Vukov, Université de Montréal, Canada Bambitchell, (Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell), artists, Canada

“Mobile Desires is an interesting effort to describe, examine and unsettle the structures and relations of power that mobilise and demobilise individuals and populations. … this reading will be – for all who undertake it – a strong stimulus to scrutinise mobility oppression and to create new ways to destabilise it, with uncertain results, but continuing attempts.” (Belén Rojas Silva, Angelaki, Vol. 22 (2), May, 2017)“The breadth of the chapters provides an excellent opportunity for readers to be pushed beyond the boundaries that exist even in the fluid world of mobility studies … . The edited volume taken as a whole is inspiring. Those interested in mobility studies and in the friction between the mobility and desires of disparate groups of citizens will find that it challenges some of the familiar gendered and racialized critiques offering a more critical feminist/queer appraisal of mobility justice.” (Liesl Gambold, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 19 (1), February, 2017)

• Introduction: The Erotics and Politics of Mobility Justice; Liz Montegary and Melissa Autumn WhitePART I: SECURING SPACES, IM/MOBILIZING DESIRES1. Moving Violations: Synthetic Hormones, Sexual Deviance, and Gendered Mobilities; Toby Beauchamp2. Tourism Mobilities, Indigenous Claims, and the Securitization of the Beach; Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez3. 'Whitey on the Moon': Space, Race, and the Crisis of Black Mobility; Jenna M. LoydPART II: THE UNFREEDOM OF MOBILITY4. Hillary Clinton and the NeXXt Generation: On Desiring Mobile Muslim Women Students; Abigail Boggs5. Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations; Tristan JosephsonPART III: AESTHETIC AND AFFECTIVE RESISTANCES 6. Sounding the Border; A Conversation with Bambitchell7. Moving Stories: Love at the Border; Anne-Marie D'Aoust8. Strange Moves: Speculations and Propositions on Mobility Justice; Tamara VukovAfterword: Mobile Desires; Caren Kaplan