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标题：Bazaar Stories of Gender, Sexuality and Imperial Spaces in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan
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作者：Nancy Cook
期刊名称：ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies
印刷版ISSN：1492-9732
出版年度：2006
卷号：5
期号：2
页码：230-257
语种：English
出版社：ACME: Eine internationale Internet-Zeitschrift für kritische Geographie
摘要：This paper provides a material and spatial analysis of processes of sexual imperialism in contemporary northern Pakistan. I interrogate Western women development workers’ experiences of sexual vulnerability in Gilgit, and argue that their representational practices and spatial negotiations are ambivalently organised by a discourse of racialised sexuality that emerged largely in the European era of high imperialism in the context of Western imperial relations and lingers into the ‘colonial present’. This discourse evokes a vaguely articulated moral panic about ‘lascivious’ indigenous men who lust after white women. Western women cope with sexual threat by scrutinising Gilgiti men’s behaviours, regulating social interactions with them, avoiding sexualised local space, and arranging their private spaces to exclude threatening men. Eroticist and racist discourses about Other men that are circulated through these efforts to cope with sexual danger reinforce established social, sexual, and spatial boundaries, which keep imperial hierarchies between Gilgiti men and Western women intact.
关键词：sexual imperialism;Western women development workers;sexual vulnerability;representation;spatial negotiation;spatial boundaries colonial present;Western imperialism;gender;sexuality;imperial space