Border Matters

Saldívar, José David

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“…Por outro lado, os fundamentalismos terceiro-mundistas da mais variada espécie respondem com a retórica de um essencialista "puro espaço exterior" à modernidade, uma "absoluta exterioridade" relativamente a esta. Anzaldúa (1987) e Jose David Saldívar (1997),…”

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Para descolonizar os estudos de economia política e os estudos pós-coloniais: Transmodernidade, pensamento de fronteira e colonialidade global

Grosfoguel¹

2009

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Para descolonizar os estudos de economia política e os estudos pós-coloniais: Transmodernidade, pensamento de fronteira e colonialidade global

Grosfoguel¹

2009

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“…Border towns are spaces that produce “mobile” or “borderland” subjectivities (Saldivar 1997). Here, mobile denotes not only increased possibilities for physical mobility, which may be enjoyed by some and restricted to others, but also the kind of mobility where moral boundaries are transgressed (Vila 2003).…”

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Blaming Kehl: Muslim Turkish Men and their Moral Journey in the Franco‐German Borderland

Alyanak

2022

City & Society

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Geographical space is more than a Cartesian plane where actors move across coordinates. It has a moral weight that renders each move subject to moral discourse. Yet, rarely does this premise prevent people from exploring spaces that are associated with anything wrong or bad. In fact, we continue to find people in places where they should not be, and doing things that are not just communally shunned but also personally acknowledged to be wrong or bad. Why is that the case? This paper draws on my ethnography on Turkish men who live in Strasbourg and socialize in its German neighbor, Kehl, to examine the role of space in the production of moral and masculine dispositions and practices. Approaching the Strasbourg‐Kehl border as a moral boundary, I examine how crossing the border to Kehl constitutes an integral part of the journey that my interlocutors take in constructing their moral and masculine selves. In this journey, spatial transgressions are not diverted but embraced, and confronted. These transgressions also produce anxieties—mistakes which in moments of self‐reflection lead to regrets. In such moments, two logics come into play: consequentialism and blame. The first builds on Islamic notions of fallibility and nefs, while the latter brings Kehl into the picture as a moral alibi—a space that takes blame for sins. The latter also helps others in the community who fail to prevent men from going to Kehl and transgressing moral boundaries to transpose culpability. In conclusion, I emphasize the need to consider the making and maintenance of masculinities and moralities in conjunction with the lived environments where such identities are formed and performed.

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Introduction: Understanding the Américas: Insights from Latin/o and Latin American Studies

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Border Matters

Cited by 571 publications

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Para descolonizar os estudos de economia política e os estudos pós-coloniais: Transmodernidade, pensamento de fronteira e colonialidade global

Para descolonizar os estudos de economia política e os estudos pós-coloniais: Transmodernidade, pensamento de fronteira e colonialidade global

Blaming Kehl: Muslim Turkish Men and their Moral Journey in the Franco‐German Borderland

Introduction: Understanding the Américas: Insights from Latin/o and Latin American Studies

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