Museum as geopolitical entity: Toward soft combat

Miller, Jacob C.; Wilson, Sharon

doi:10.1111/gec3.12623

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“…This exposes a contradiction of the moving body of the tourist, as the possibility to travel is a form of freedom from assigned immobilities but involves entering other forms of biopolitical control over mobility, such as a liberal form of governmentality in which freedom of movement is permitted under certain regulations (Sarasin, 2020). Conversely, a museum as a space of exception, and power, is not as radical as the airport in terms of security and control, focusing more on the embodiment and affect to influence political subjectivity (Miller and Wilson, 2022). However, as we assert, the Naoshima case is particular in its modus operandi and reach.…”

Section: Controlling Bodies Framing Subjectivities In Art and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coercive geographies: Biopower, spatial politics, and the tourist

Iaquinto,

Cheer,

Roelofsen

et al. 2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a lesser degree, continues to do so. The role that tourism plays in enabling authorities to enact spatial transformations reinforcing state power, while also indicating potential means of resistance, is foregrounded in this symposium. The four empirical contributions extend biopolitical thought by demonstrating that biopower is instrumental in the practices and regimes of mobility, security, in/exclusion of tourism. In Europe, the Dutch government experimented with enclosed “COVID-safe” tourist spaces. In Macao, China’s border regime screened tourists based on their viral threat capacities. On Naoshima Island in Japan, museums have transformed into infrastructures of bodily control. In Taiwan, flight attendants are grappling with newly emerging forms of biopower shaping the sociality of air travel and their own practices of hospitality. These empirically informed contributions interrogate how tourism figures in attempts to govern bodies at the population level, while uncovering the modes of coercion applied to govern tourists and the spaces they inhabit.

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Section: Controlling Bodies Framing Subjectivities In Art and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%