Geo-political bodies: Italy’s South-Eastern borders, sexualized frontiers and transnational narratives
Keywords:
sexpolitics borders, Western/Eastern Europe, Nothern/Southern Italy, transnational artistic practices, autoanthropologyAbstract
Starting from post-WWII stories of North-Eastern and Southern borderlands, we set out to review the symbolic geography of the Italian state and transform the concepts of 'South', 'East', 'periphery' and 'frontier', as produced and used by institutional and academic authorities. Taking up a minority positionality allows recognising one's own strategic place, and contradicting the virile pressure of (the) Capital. Linking together the stories of borderlands highlights the need for deconstructing those divisions (North/South, West/East, man/woman, core/periphery, etc.) that deeply mark collective imaginaries and dis-orient subjects, urging them to relocate in the Capital(s) of North-Western Europe.
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