Back to Borders

Novak, Paolo

doi:10.1177/0896920516644034

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“…The borderscaping framework highlights ‘the multi-vocal, mutually constitutive, shifting and contested meanings of contemporary bordering processes’ (Novak, 2017: 854, quoting Yuval-Davis, 2013) and contributes to unravel borders as sites of multiple tensions between hegemonic, non-hegemonic, and counter-hegemonic imaginaries and practices (Gaibazzi, 2017). As has been documented elsewhere in the case of the LampedusaInFestival and the Italian/Tunisian borderscape (Brambilla, 2015b, 2016) the borderscaping perspective transcends an exclusive focus on the modern state sovereignty and its claimed exclusive power as it follows the discursive and performative construction of violence and conflict encouraging new conditions of possibility for agency.…”

Section: Moving ‘Beyond the Line’: The Generative Potential Of Bordermentioning

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Rethinking borders, violence, and conflict: From sovereign power to borderscapes as sites of struggles

Brambilla

Jones

2019

Environ Plan D

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This article advances the understanding of borders with respect to their epistemological, ontological, and empirical intersections with violence and conflict, which remain understudied within critical border studies. Specifically, the article explores the potential of recent interdisciplinary research on the border–migration nexus to find critical resources that might foster a better understanding of the complex relationships between borders, violence, and conflict. From this viewpoint, the border is not only a site of the founding violence of the sovereign power, but borders – reconceived as borderscapes – can also be regarded as a site of generative struggles where alternative subjectivities and agencies could be shaped. The article concludes with a call for an applied, committed, and engaged research capable of recovering its inherently political dimension moving towards a ‘politics of hope’ and beyond the simplistic yet dominant interpretations of the border–violence–conflict intersections, which are trapped in the ‘politics of fear’.

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Section: Moving ‘Beyond the Line’: The Generative Potential Of Bordermentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking borders, violence, and conflict: From sovereign power to borderscapes as sites of struggles

Brambilla

Jones

2019

Environ Plan D

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“…This not only speaks to the disparate spatial imaginaries between Kenya’s urban centre and its territorial peripheries, but also highlights that borders, although imagined, simultaneously take on a spatial and symbolic dimension. In our analysis of bordering, we should therefore not confine ourselves within a ‘social-to-spatial analytical trajectory’ (Novak, 2017: 849), but rather focus on the ways in which bordering occurs along social and spatial dimensions at the same time, albeit in divergent ways.…”

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“…The study of borders is an increasingly multidisciplinary affair that analyses the numerous ways in which differences can be identified across physical, social and cultural terrains (Newman, 2006;Novak, 2017). One of the key contributions of more recent critical work on borders has been the debunking of the narrow Weberian-based perspective of borders as physical national frontiers and geographical demarcation points (Balibar, 2014;Newman, 2003Newman, , 2006Rumford, 2012).…”

Section: Moral Borderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 Rather, borders can also be social, cultural and symbolic and are therefore not only spatially or physically constituted. Borders are increasingly seen as ‘lines that provide socio-spatial criteria for defining a “here” and “there”, (some of) “us” and “them”, and what/who is and is not’ (Novak, 2017: 850). With this broader and more critical perspective, borders are not only defined by states, do not rely on mutual recognition and do not need to be visible.…”

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“…In this article, I analyse police reform initiatives as moral bordering by focusing on the perceptions of certain police officers, such as Wilfred, who are at the frontline of continuously enacting the moral borders between 'pure' and 'rotten' police officers. Drawing from (critical) border studies (see Brambilla, 2015;Newman, 2003Newman, , 2006Novak, 2017;Rumford, 2012;Yuval-Davis et al, 2019), this article sees bordering as a processual enactment of borders, which are points of differentiation by which individuals distinguish themselves from others. Moral bordering refers to the enactment of borders along moral questions of good and bad, and in this case, the (presumed) differentiation between the 'pure' and 'rotten' apples among the Kenyan police.…”

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The ‘pure apples’: Moral bordering within the Kenyan police

Diphoorn

2020

Environ Plan D

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This article analyses various police reform initiatives in Kenya as a form of ‘moral bordering’. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Nairobi between 2017 and 2018, I analyse how police officers differentiate themselves from other police officers along (moral) ideas of reform and how this occurs in two divergent, yet interconnected, directions. The first is a process of bordering in: moral bordering occurs internally within the police and reform efforts aim to break down borders among police officers. The second is a process of bordering out: reform initiatives are designed in the urban centre and are aimed at spatially pushing the border externally, away from Nairobi. My approach to reform as moral bordering shows how borders can simultaneously take on disparate dimensions: with bordering in, borders are primarily social and symbolic, and with bordering out, borders take on a more spatial nature. This duality encapsulates the inherent friction that results from reform initiatives simultaneously moving in distinctive directions and differs from much of the (anthropological) work on the state police that analyses how the police themselves either enact borders or act as borders.

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Socio‐economic strategy for settlement of refugees amidst crisis: The case of Pak‐Afghan

Tariq,

Ali,

Petrillo

et al. 2024

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

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Today, global concerns are at their peak due to the fast‐growing number of refugees. The world faces the dilemma of the refugee crisis, which needs to be addressed by the United Nations (U.N.) sustainable development goals (SDGs). Pakistan hosts about 1.4 million registered refugees in camps and urban areas. The majority consist of Afghans who departed due to severe poverty, conflict, and security concerns. These refugees bring socio‐economic distress to the host country. In order to comprehend the whole crisis, this study primarily focuses on three areas: the unstable political and security situation in the country of origin, the refugee concerns and their implications. This research is unique throughout the literature as it applies the interpretive structural modelling (ISM) tool to view the refugee crisis holistically. Results from ISM show that the ‘Political situation of Afghanistan’ is the most influential factor with very high driving power. Afterward, 10 resulting factors were opted from the ISM model, which demonstrate the implications on the host country. The relative importance index (RII) approach was used to rank the resultant factors. Ranking from RII depicts a significantly different impact of refugees while residing in urban areas. Using the Prisoner's dilemma of cooperative game theory (GT), this study concludes by recommending refugees to get registered and the host country to settle them in the local population. The use of cooperative GT with the nexus of ISM and RII is also exceptional and will be helpful for researchers and policymakers to resolve any conflict.

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Back to Borders

Cited by 27 publications

References 66 publications

Rethinking borders, violence, and conflict: From sovereign power to borderscapes as sites of struggles

Rethinking borders, violence, and conflict: From sovereign power to borderscapes as sites of struggles

The ‘pure apples’: Moral bordering within the Kenyan police

Socio‐economic strategy for settlement of refugees amidst crisis: The case of Pak‐Afghan

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