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ID184317
Title ProperPornography at the Border
Other Title InformationEthnosexual Borderscapes, Gendered Violence, and Embodied control
LanguageENG
AuthorCasaglia, Anna
Summary / Abstract (Note)This article analyses the pornographic genre of ‘border sex’, set on the US-Mexico border and produced in the US, which depicts uneven power relations taking shape at and through the border. I posit an interpretation of these representations that focuses on the use of institutionalised violence as a means of exerting control over female migrants’ bodies, reasserting a gendered territorial authority. This interpretation also highlights the intersectional aspects of inequalities and I propose an understanding of the embodiment of control and the US-Mexico border that shows the importance and potential of the theoretical and analytical tools of feminist geography to contribute to the critical border studies literature. Moreover, the article places itself in the tradition of popular geopolitics and plugs a gap in this stream of research and literature regarding online pornography and its importance in shaping imaginaries, not only with regard to sexual relations. This work draws on various theoretical traditions and analytical approaches to cover issues related to borders and border crossing from a feminist geopolitical standpoint, with a particular interest in the increasing embodiment of migration control in pornographic popular representations and in the intersection of various forms of inequality at the border.
`In' analytical NoteGeopolitics Vol. 27, No.1; Jan-Feb 2022: p.185-205
Journal SourceGeopolitics Vol: 27 No 1
Key WordsGendered Violence ;  Pornography at the Border


 
 
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