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(2018) Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Global air travel has undergone a major shift in its short history, from the glamour of the 1930s to today's crowded terminals and mandatory searches. Reflecting on the celebratory and dystopic claims of globalisation and nationalism, this chapter attempts to recoup the possibility for affective cosmopolitan belonging amongst the gross unevenness in freedom of movement present in the world and amplified through global travel. In the current age of global terror and neo-conservative liberalism, the airport is a place where the terror threat is specularised by the public; but as yet, our encounter with the disciplining apparatus of state security is an intersubjective one. As a version of the public sphere, cosmopolitan spaces such as the airport circulate affect through shared as well as singular experience; it is at the scale of the body that we might begin to enact an ethics of encounter with difference, with others.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69572-3_5
Full citation:
Shih Pearson, J. (2018). Bodies under duress (the dystopic future is here), in Choreographing the airport, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-127.
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