Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the ‘Lines in the Sand' Agenda

Parker, Nöel; Vaughan‐Williams, Nick

doi:10.1080/14650045.2012.706111

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“…We conceptualise borders as multiple and dynamic, producing and being produced by the shifting power relationship among individuals and institutions involved, both directly and indirectly, in their formation and operation. Border is, hence, as Parker and Vaughan-Williams (2012) conclude never simply '"present", nor fully established, nor obviously accessible. Rather, the border is manifold and in a constant state of becoming (728)'; it is always 'located, partial and incomplete', and cannot be fixed, stable or universal (Bauder 2011(Bauder , 1129.…”

Section: Conceptualising Borders and Power Geometries In Tnementioning

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Educatorssans frontières? Borders and power geometries in transnational education

Leung

Waters

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Education work denotes a relational encounter among individuals positioned along axes of intersecting differences. Transnational education (TNE) offers a particularly intriguing context for conceptualising borders and power relation in knowledge production. Drawing upon empirical work conducted in the UK and Hong Kong, this paper interrogates the notion of border in TNE and analyses how 'flying faculty' involved in UK TNE programmes in Hong Kong perceive, manage and experience socio-cultural, institutional and other borders. We contextualise the personal experiences of these 'educators sans frontières' in the broader power geometries in which they are embedded. Our findings reveal the presence and strength of diverse borders in the TNE field. These borders are contexts of control and capital accumulation, where existing power relation is being negotiated and contested on a daily basis. We also highlight the rapidly changing power geometries in the field marked by the rise of the new powers, like Hong Kong, in the international higher education system. The paper ends by calling for more appreciation and efforts in harnessing the generative and creative potential of borders. Exploring borders as contexts of exchanges and coproduction would contribute to more equitable partnerships among diverse stakeholders in the expanding TNE sector.

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Section: Conceptualising Borders and Power Geometries In Tnementioning

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Educatorssans frontières? Borders and power geometries in transnational education

Leung

Waters

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Disability refers to an effect or performing agency that emerges when irregular bodies interact with disabling material practices [45]. A case in point is provided by borders as material processes or practices, as bordering practices [7][8][9]. These practices signify and over-determine the work of bordering and its symbolic and material/semiotic implications.…”

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Bodies Folded in Migrant Crypts: Dis/Ability and the Material Culture of Border-Crossing

2016

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This article considers media narratives that suggest that hiding in trucks, buses, and other vehicles to cross borders has, in fact, been a common practice in the context of migration to, and within, Europe. We aim to problematize how the tension between the materiality of bordering practices and human migrants generates a dis/abled subject. In this context, dis/ability may be a cause or consequence of migration, both in physical/material (the folding of bodies in the crypt) and cultural/semiotic terms, and may become a barrier to accessing protection, to entering and/or crossing a country, and to performing mobility in general. Dis/ability and migration have not been associated in the literature. We adopt an analytical symmetry between humans and non-humans, in this case between bodies and crypts. By suggesting an infected, ambivalent, and hybrid approach to the human subject, the body-crypt traveling border challenges the essentialist dichotomies between technology and biology, disability and impairment. The articles and reports upon which we rely were collected through extensive searches of databases/archives of online newspapers and news websites.

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“…By emphasising the performative production of zoopolitical spaces -such as the Tripoli zoo-turned-processing-centre -I suggest that it is possible to open up new avenues for critiquing the limits of humanitarian border security beyond the dominant rhetoric/reality frame. As such, the article responds to extant calls for the development of alternative border imaginaries apposite to the complexities of bordering practices in global politics (Johnson et al 2011;Mezzadra and Neilson 2013;Parker and Vaughan-Williams 2012;Rumford 2008;Walker 2010), the further elaboration of the (post)biopolitical paradigm (Debrix and Barder 2012;Wolfe 2012), and the exploration of how Derrida's zoopolitical treatment of the relationship between biopolitics, sovereignty and the human/animal distinction might help 'inform a new, critical geography' (Rasmussen 2013(Rasmussen : 1130. Crucially, however, the analysis departs from recent efforts to bring 'the animal' and animal-human relations back in to political geography and border-making (Philo and Wilbert 2000;Brown and Rasmussen 2010;Collard 2012;Sundberg 2011 example, Balibar 1998Balibar , 2009Bialasiewicz 2011;Bigo 2001;Guild 2009;van Houtum 2010;Rumford 2008;Sidaway 2006;Walker 2000;Walters 2002Walters , 2011.…”

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“We are not animals!” Humanitarian border security and zoopolitical spaces in EUrope1

Vaughan‐Williams

2015

Political Geography

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Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the ‘Lines in the Sand' Agenda

Cited by 198 publications

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Educatorssans frontières? Borders and power geometries in transnational education

Educatorssans frontières? Borders and power geometries in transnational education

Bodies Folded in Migrant Crypts: Dis/Ability and the Material Culture of Border-Crossing

“We are not animals!” Humanitarian border security and zoopolitical spaces in EUrope1

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