A Transnational Travelogue: Borders, Misunderstandings, and the Telecafés in Berlin

The article proposes a transnational feminist perspective that borrows from feminist political geography and the artistic concept of Psychogeography for a critical and self-reflexive approach to concepts of nation in the twenty-first century. Interactions and misunderstandings in Berlin telecafés are used to guide the reader through theoretical and political disorientations and different kinds of border crossings in the urban landscape of the German capital and in the field of feminist German studies. The proposed theoretical tools for reading contradictory scripts of nation and transnationality intend to open up spaces for counter-topographies and counter-narratives of nation and globalization. (MS)