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" Uncertain territories : "
Inge E. Boer ; edited by Mieke Bal, Bregje van Eekelen, Patricia Spyer.
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BL
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952022
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b706392
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Boer, Inge E.
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Uncertain territories : : boundaries in cultural analysis /\ Inge E. Boer ; edited by Mieke Bal, Bregje van Eekelen, Patricia Spyer.
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Amsterdam ;New York, NY :: Rodopi,, 2006.
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Genus--gender in modern culture ;; 7
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1 online resource (xiii, 327 pages) :: illustrations
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1429481161
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: 9401203717
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: 9781429481168
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: 9789401203715
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9042021209
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9789042021204
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and indexes.
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| Contents
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The world beyond my window : nomads, travelling theories, and the function of boundaries -- Public violence hits home : civil war and the destruction of privacy -- Uncertain territories : travel as exchange -- No-man's land? : deserts and the politics of place -- Just a fashion? : cultural cross-dressing -- Border fetishism : negotiable authenticity -- Impressions of character : Hari Kunzru's The impressionist / Murat Aydemir -- From travelogue to ethnography and back again? : Hilma Granqvist's writings and photographs / Annelies Moors -- Between hospitality and hostility : crossing Balkan borders in Adela Peeva's Whose is this song? / Maria Boletsi -- Borders of the art world, boundaries of the artwork : on "contemporary art from the Islamic world" / Begüm Özden Firat -- Giving life : Inge Boer's postcolonial theory / Isabel Hoving.
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Tracing and theorizing the concept of the boundaries through literary works, visual objects and cultural phenomena, this book argues against the reification of boundaries as fixed and empty non-spaces that simply divide the world. Expanding on her previous work on gender and Orientalism, Inge Boer takes us into uncertain territories of fashion and art, tourism and travel, skilfully engaging the ambivalence of boundaries, as both protecting and confining, as bringing distinction while existing by virtue of their ability to be transgressed. In her close readings of that boundaries as desert, as.
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Culture.
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Ethnic barriers.
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Gender identity.
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Globalization.
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Culture.
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Ethnic barriers.
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Gender identity.
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Globalization.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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306
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HM621.B64 2006xeb
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Bal, Mieke,1946-
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Eekelen, Bregje van.
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Spyer, Patricia,1957-
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