Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 14-17th December 2016 Program Index

British South Asian communities are demarcated as uncivil. British South Asian women are not only victims
of physical and mental abuse, as we see in other cases of domestic violence, but also victims of a symbolic
violence after the fact. The paper proposes that the circulation of moral codes is used as one means to
control, govern and regulate South Asian communities in Britain (under the imperative “save”), which
reaffirms a British national identity that is feared to be under threat from the rise of multiculturalism. The
paper illustrates how Aristotelian legacies of inner and outer honour were political in regards to demarcating
members of the Greek polity, and argues that these legacies continue to resurface in colonial
anthropological discourses of shame and guilt cultures, which provides the basis for the current honour
crime language. This paper contends that these ideologies continue to shape hegemonic scripts about postcolonial
subjects as people that are controlled by immoral values by racializing bodies and constructing them
as Others to mark the boundaries of civilised people.
Cecily Devereux Erotic dance and/as colonial history: The performance of indigenous femininity in early
North American strip culture
There is a long history of the functionalizing of images of indigenous femininity in North America as signs of
settler emplacement. Advertising media in the 19th and 20th centuries routinely mobilized images of “Indian
maidens” in the naturalization of settler commerce and capitalism. Many other cultural practices, however,
can be seen to be doing similar work; this paper suggests erotic dance is one of them. Although it has a long
cultural history, erotic dance emerged as a business in an imperial and colonial context around the middle of
the nineteenth century. Rooted in expansionist culture, practices of displacement, and the
spectacularization of imperial bodies in place, the business of erotic dance, this paper suggests, is a
foundational site for the reproduction of ideologies of race and power that would be central to the
development of strip culture into the twentieth century.
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Visual culture and sexual modernity (Chair, Sonia Wong)
Laura Saarenmaa
magazine
Adventures of an export salesman: travel, race, and sex abroad in a 70s Finnish pornographic
During the 1970s, pornographic magazines that envisioned the Finnish man sovereignly enjoying sexual
pleasures in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East became extremely popular in Finland. In this
paper it is argued, that pornographic magazines functioned as geographical as well as sexual maps; through
the medium of magazines, Finnish readers were educated to think of themselves as privileged, “white,”
“Western European” men. In examining the travel stories of Kalle, this paper contributes to the recent
debate on the ambiguous position of Nordic countries vis-à-vis their colonial legacies. Recent studies have
questioned the Nordic status of innocent exteriority in colonial projects and reconsidered Nordic countries
as invisible participants in the postcolonial order (Eide and Nikunen 2010; Henningsen et al. 2009; Keskinen
et al. 2009). In this paper, colonial complicity refers to the processes in which postcolonial imaginaries,
practices, and products are used to define what is understood as sexually desirable – and sexually available –
for white-skinned, wealthy “Scandinavians,” as the travel stories of Kalle invite their Finnish readers to
envision themselves. After the Second World War, the agricultural, war-damaged country of Finland was one
of the poorest areas in northern Europe. In addition, Finland’s political sovereignty was constantly
challenged by the neighboring Soviet Union, which fed the Finnish people’s national inferiority complex in
relation to the West and other Nordic countries. Drawing on the Foucauldian notion that sexual narratives
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