[acc-cca-l] Seminar: Pornography at the Border. October 24 at the University of Toronto

[Alessandro Delfanti]

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Pornography at the Border:

Ethnosexual Borderscapes, Gendered Violence, and Embodied control



Seminar with Anna Casaglia, University of Trento

Discussant: Patrick Keilty, University of Toronto

Moderator: Maggie MacDonald, University of Toronto



Monday, October 24, 4 to 6 PM

Room 520, Faculty of Information, 140 St. George street, Toronto



This presentation 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. It posits an interpretation of these representations that focuses on the use of institutionalized violence as a means of exerting control over female migrants’ bodies, reasserting a gendered territorial authority. The presentation 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.



Anna Casaglia is Associate Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the University of Trento. She is interested in bordering processes and migration management, the relationship between conflict and space, the spatial aspects of power relations, and right-wing populism.

Organized by the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) and the Faculty of Information.


Alessandro Delfanti
University of Toronto
www.delfanti.org
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