This book combines mobilities research with feminist and queer studies offering new perspectives on mobility justice. It foregrounds academic, activist, and artistic work revealing state-sponsored strategies for managing the mobility of people as mechanisms for aligning erotic and political desires with capitalist and nationalist interests.
Introduction: The Erotics and Politics of Mobility Justice; Liz Montegary and Melissa Autumn White
PART I: SECURING SPACES, IM/MOBILIZING DESIRES
1. Moving Violations: Synthetic Hormones, Sexual Deviance, and Gendered Mobilities; Toby Beauchamp
2. Tourism Mobilities, Indigenous Claims, and the Securitization of the Beach; Vernadette Vicu?a Gonzalez
3. 'Whitey on the Moon': Space, Race, and the Crisis of Black Mobility; Jenna M. Loyd
PART II: THE UNFREEDOM OF MOBILITY
4. Hillary Clinton and the NeXXt Generation: On Desiring Mobile Muslim Women Students; Abigail Boggs
5. Desiring the Nation: Transgender Trauma in Asylum Declarations; Tristan Josephson
PART III: AESTHETIC AND AFFECTIVE RESISTANCES
6. Sounding the Border; A Conversation with Bambitchell
7. Moving Stories: Love at the Border; Anne-Marie D'Aoust
8. Strange Moves: Speculations and Propositions on Mobility Justice; Tamara Vukov
Afterword: Mobile Desires; Caren Kaplan
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. (Belen Rojas Silva, Angelaki, Vol. 22 (2), May, 2017)
The breadth of the chapters provides an excellent opportunity for readers to be pushed beyond the boundariel-