Borders and Spatial Imaginaries in the Kuwaiti Identity

Beaugrand, Claire

doi:10.1080/14650045.2017.1341407

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“…Other case studies focused on the production of borders in specific contexts. Claire Beaugrand (2018) analysed the role of many actors ranging from state institutions through elites to people’s everyday lives in the production of national identity in Kuwait.…”

Section: Borders and Borderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 and New internal bordering: The case of Slovakia

Mičko

2023

New Perspectives

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This paper analyses how a state produces new internal borders. It selected 1668 newspaper articles on the COVID-19 internal bordering case in Slovakia to answer this question. These articles were then analysed using the thematic trajectory analysis (TTA) through the conceptual prism of structurationism. The results suggest states apply methods during the production of internal borders similar to those used during the (re-)production of an international border. In particular, it shows the application of a military-testing nexus and economic tools to ensure compliance with the new border. Results also revealed that such a border is heavily dependent on popular support for the government and open to re-negotiations by relevant societal groups. From the border production perspective, this study offers a preliminary step into the area of internal borders imposed on a generally homogenous population, especially regarding the borders produced under COVID-19 conditions.

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Section: Borders and Borderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 and New internal bordering: The case of Slovakia

Mičko

2023

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“…Or they can vary from material geographies (Ben‐Ze’ev & Yvroux, 2018; Graham, 2015). Additionally, popular imaginative geographies originate, endure, and change in response to cultural inheritances (e.g., colonial ways of seeing – Jazeel, 2012; Kothari, 2006; Sidaway & Pryke, 2000), experiences of events (Jokela‐Pansini, 2016; Wolford, 2004), the cultural work of elites who construct and circulate them by various media (Nathan et al, 2019; Sidaway & Pryke, 2000), and the agency, appropriations, critical readings, and performances of citizens (Beaugrand, 2018; Kothari, 2006; Watkins, 2015; Woon, 2014). Finally, popular imaginative geographies inform the decision‐making of people, including migrants and tourists planning their transnational mobility (Jung, 2014; Mostafanezhad & Promburom, 2018; Thompson, 2017), ethnic minorities planning their urban mobility (Itaoui, 2016), house buyers/renters/guardians making decisions about where to live (Eng, 1994; Ferreri & Dawson, 2018; Johnston, 1971), entrepreneurs making decisions about where to invest (Meester & Pallenbarg, 2006; Spilkova, 2007; Winther & Hanson, 2006), and, importantly for the present study, citizens deciding on their own political action (Wolford, 2004).…”

Section: Popular Imaginative Geographies As Fast‐thinking Heuristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Popular imaginative geographies and Brexit: Evidence from Mass Observation

Clarke

Moss

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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The EU Referendum of 2016 was one of the most significant events in recent British political history. It is widely recognised that citizens engaged with the referendum through understandings of Britain, the EU, the world, and their place in it.This study complements existing research where such understandings have been inferred from citizens' demographic characteristics, the characteristics of their localities/regions, or elite discourses. It builds on existing research where a more direct engagement with citizens' understandings has been achieved through interviews or focus groups, allowing the content of understandings to be thickly described. To these latter studies, this paper makes three main contributions. First, it focuses on popular imaginative geographies, which are conceptualised drawing on literatures in Geography and Political Science as fast-thinking heuristics. Second, it brings new evidence to the conversation in the form of volunteer writing for Mass Observation. Third, the focus is on the content of popular imaginative geographies, but also how and why such geographies were used by voters in the referendum. The main findings include that many Leave supporters imagined Britain as an islandeither a once great military and imperial power, an island separate from Europe, needing freedom from Europe to engage in the wider world; or a small island, a full container, close to the rest of Europe and vulnerable to mobilities across Europe's borders. By contrast, many Remain supporters imagined Britain as post-imperial, small, vulnerable, and under threat of isolation from Europe and exposure to a chaotic, uncertain, dangerous world. Both groups engaged with the referendum through such popular imaginative geographies because the referendum presented voters with a difficult task, the campaigns provided few trustworthy facts, and voters therefore had to rely on cognitive shortcuts, including popular imaginative geographies.

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“…One of the strengths of the disciplines of geography and border studies are the careful and detailed local studies of individual borders. Beyond the many studies of the US-Mexico and EU borderlands, some excellent examples from other places around the world are Hosna Shewly's work on the India Bangladesh border (2013), the articles in this special issue on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border (Raza and Shapiro 2019), Claire Beaugrand's work on borders and Kuwaiti identity (Beaugrand 2017) or Martin Doevenspeck's work on the Congo-Rwanda border (Doevenspeck 2011). However, as I watched the turn to border walls and the global phenomenon of migrant deaths, I felt like I was in a unique position to write a comparative account, drawing together these disparate strands into a broader global study.…”

Section: The Violence Of Borders Has Only Gotten Worsementioning

confidence: 99%