Name: Shifting Positionalities
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Shifting Positionalities

The Local and International Geo-Politics of Surveillance and Policing

Edited By: Aaron Tobler, María Amelia Viteri

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Shifting Positionalities examines the surveillance of sexual, racial, and ethnic identities in the post-9/11 era. It reveals how individuals and communities utilize techniques of actively resisting the policing of their daily lives across borders.

The local-level and international contributors of Shifting Positionalities encompass particular common themes through in-depth social science research in an effort to understand the meanings of…

The local-level and international contributors of Shifting Positionalities encompass particular common themes through in-depth social science research in an effort to understand the meanings of the reformulation of state discourses and practices in this post-9/11 era. Current conjunctions between sexual, racial and ethnic identities—and the surveillance practices of those identities—calls for a thorough examination of the multiple and usually unexpected meaning-making practices adapted by individuals. Far from being predictable, the latter speaks to the possibility of individuals and communities utilizing techniques of actively resisting—as opposed to passively embracing—the policing of their daily lives. Shifting Positionalities: The Local and International Geo-Politics of Surveillance and Policing addresses surveillance and policing as practices and sites that speak to the various ways in which bio-power, displacement and resistance converge to constitute particular subjectivities across borders.

María-Amelia Viteri is a native of Ecuador with a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology currently working on a book that looks at the intersections of migration, citizenship, gender and sexuality in El Salvador, Ecuador and the U.S. Dr. Viteri speaks from a situated space as a transnational herself, teaching and researching between the geo-political spaces of the U.S. (Catholic University, Washington D.C.) and FLACSO/Ecuador (Latin American School for the Study of Social Sciences). She has recently incorporated performance and cultural studies as additional tools for cultural activism.

Aaron Tobler is a doctoral candidate with the Department of Anthropology at American University, Washington, D.C. His dissertation research surrounds the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., and issues of sexuality, discourse and the state. Recent publications include: “‘We do General Policing’: Sexuality in the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit of the Metropoltian Police Department, Washington, DC” in the Graduate Journal of Social Science and “‘A 20/20 Focus on Gaydar”: Examinations of Sexuality in Television News Magazines” in the NeoAmericanist online journal.

Mysara Abu-Hashem, Ahmed Afzal, Michelle Carnes, Ben Chappell, Gwen D’Arcangelis, Kolleen Duley, Samuel Goodstein, Nazia Kazi, Eric Pelofsky, Fredy Rivera, Jacob Stump, Mark Theodorson, Maria Amelia Viteri, Aaron Tobler