Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders

This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the epistemological and political questions that they raise. The 'borderities' approach illuminates the question of how borders can be the site of both power and counter-power.

The book is a valuable contribution to border studies, not in the least because it offers useful insights for understanding contemporary border regimes at a time when we cannot afford the luxury of ignoring them. Thus, for border scholars it offers a neologism and plenty of food for thought whereas for those not familiar with border studies it may work as a kind of eye-opener challenging deeply embedded perceptions about borders. (Jaume Castan Pinos, Journal of Borderlands Studies, September, 2016)

Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders is a cohesive collection that contributes to ongoing debates over the nature of borders and their relation to sovereignty, territory and spatial politics. it should be well received by students as well as fellow researchers. what it offers is an insightful series of orientation points to the complexity, contingency and human cost of constructing and maintaining the lines, processes and practices that divide populations the world over. (Jonathan Darling, Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 40 (5), 2016)

Auteur
Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USA. Michael Strauss, Centre d'études diplomatiques et stratégiques, France. Sylvain Guyot, University of Limoges, France. Jouni Häkli, University of Tampere, Finland. Gabriel Popescu, Indiana University South Bend, USA. Nicolas Lambert, CNRS - UMR 7301. Olivier Clochard, MIGRINTER, France. Chiara Brambilla, Universita di Bergamo, Italy. Thomas Hendriks, KU Leuven University, Belgium. Adriana Dorfman, Universidad Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Olivier Walther, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Denis Retaillé, Université de Bordeaux, France. Sarah Mekdjian, Université de Grenoble-Alpes, France. Luiza Bialasiewicz, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Paolo Cuttitta, VU University Amsterdam. Ariane Littman, Visual Artist, Israel.

Contenu

1. Borderities: The Politics Of Contemporary Mobile Borders; Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary and Frédéric Giraut PART I: CONTROLLING MOBILITY THE NORMATIVE POWER OF BORDERITIES 2. Bordering Capabilities Versus Borders: Implications For National Borders; Saskia Sassen 3. Nations Outside Their Borders: How Extraterritorial Concessions Reinforce Sovereignty; Michael J. Strauss 4. The Politics Of Eco-Frontiers: When Environmentality Meets Borderities; Sylvain Guyot 5. The Border In The Pocket: Passport As A Boundary Object; Jouni Häkli 6. Controlling Mobility: Embodying Borders; Gabriel Popescu PART II: BIOPOLITICS. INCARNATING THE MOBILE BORDER 7. Mobile And Fatal: The EU Borders; Nicolas Lambert and Olivier Clochard 8. Mobile Euro/African Borderscapes: Migrant Communities And Shifting Urban Margins; Chiara Brambilla 9. Ethnographic Notes On 'Camp' Centrifugality And Liminality On The Rainforest Frontier; Thomas Hendricks 10. Smuggling: Power Networks, Moral Geographies And Norm Enforcement At Work At Southern Cone Borders; Adriana Dorfman PART III: DISPOSITIFS. INTERPRETING COMPLEX AND MOBILE BORDERS 11. Rethinking Borders In A Mobile World: An Alternative Model; Olivier Walther and Denis Retaillé 12. Mapping Mobile Borders. Critical Cartographies Of Borders Based On Migration Experiences.; Sarah Mekdjian 13. Tangier, Mobile City: Re-Making Borders In The Straits Of Gibraltar; Luiza Bialasiewicz 14. Territorial And Non-Territorial: The Mobile Borders Of Migration Controls; Paolo Cuttitta Epilogue 15. Alternative Ways Of Mapping The Wound Or Symbolic Borderities; Ariane Littman