Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies

Parker, Nöel; Vaughan‐Williams, Nick

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“…Even if some scholars posit these two positions as antithetic, and posing a dilemma that can only be solved through the demise of one or the other 92 , these perspectives do not need to be seen in such stark contrast 93 . Indeed, recent scholarship offers tools that overcome such dichotomy, by offering new theorisations and concepts -such as borderscape 94 , networked border 95 , border multiple 96 , cosmopolitan border 97 , the border as "epistemic perspective" 98 -or by charting research agendas based on as wide a range of concerns as space/time 99 , place, performance and perspective 100 .…”

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Placing Borders in Development

Novak

2016

Geopolitics

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Development is inextricably related to the state-centred cartography of world spaces defined by borders, both in its historical trajectory and contemporary entanglements. Yet the multiplicity of channels and directions characterising their articulation are scarcely explored. This article contributes to this emerging field of enquiry. It delineates the essential traits of the borders and development nexus by establishing a systematic dialogue between the fields of Border Studies and Development Studies, a dialogue framed by concerns with scalar politics. More specifically, the paper places borders in development in two ways. First, it places borders in Development Studies: it identifies borders as a useful analytical vantage point that lay at the intersection between state-and non-state centred geographies of development. Second, it places Border Studies in development: focusing on the tension between borders and bordering processes, it interrogates economic growthand poverty-related policies. Three contributions to the study of development arising from placing borders in development in this way are highlighted. The paper also expands the emerging field of enquiry concerned with the relation between borders and development, by considering development policies not yet been examined through the prism of borders, and by emphasising the hierarchical and yet unpredictable nature of the borders and development articulation. At its broadest, the discussion dis-entangles the multiplicity of scales and directions in which borders, bordering and the development process intersect. It is at this scalar intersection that the force of development, and the potentials for engaging, opposing, avoiding, or subverting it, lay. IntroductionConcerns with space and the spatiality of social relations emerged more than forty years ago at the margins of radical social theory, but are now de rigueur across the social sciences. Development Studies is no exception: contemporary academic work and policy-making documents use an extensive spatial imaginary and vocabulary, as they (more or less casually) deploy terms such as "horizontal and vertical" inequalities, cross-border "flows", "de-/re-territorialisation", or "de-/rebordering". In line with the objectives of this Special Issue, the following pages engage with these scalar concerns, as they investigate the complex spatiality of development though the prism of borders.In particular, the paper delineates the essential traits of the borders and development nexus by establishing a systematic dialogue between the fields of Border Studies and Development Studies, a dialogue framed by a concern with scalar politics. In order to harness the potentialities offered by the intersection between these two fields, the following discussion places borders in development, in two ways. First, it places borders in Development Studies: that is, it examines contemporary development's discourses, policies and practices, to locate borders at the scalar intersection of development processes that unfold ...

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Section: Placing Borders Studies In Developmentmentioning

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Placing Borders in Development

Novak

2016

Geopolitics

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“…In aiming to bring the Anglo-Scottish border "back in," it is important to highlight the common ground between this endeavor and recent attempts to reconceptualize borders within a more critical border studies. This burgeoning literature stresses the importance of: capturing their dynamic nature; utilizing an interdisciplinary (or "multi-perspectival" approach); appreciating their competing and contradictory material and symbolic meanings; and being critical of the assumption that they have usually taken the form of a line drawn between two states (see for example: Anderson and O'Dowd 1999;Brunet-Jailly 2005;Newman 2003;Parker and Vaughan-Williams 2009;Rumford 2012).…”

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Bringing the Anglo-Scottish Border “Back in”: Reassessing Cross-border Relations in the Context of Greater Scottish Autonomy

Shaw

2017

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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This special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies "brings the Anglo-Scottish border back in" by drawing upon six of the contributions from an ESRC Seminar Series on the nature of the cross-border relationship between Scotland and its "closest cousins," in Northern England. The seminars, which took place in 2014-2015, involved a range of contributors including academics, policy-makers and practitioners, with the academics drawn from a range of disciplines, including politics, cultural history, visual culture, economic geography, sociology, and planning. This introduction will examine the main characteristics of the Anglo-Scottish border and capture the nature of contemporary border change. It will then focus on the cross-border relationship between Scotland and the North of England before highlighting the key themes of the six articles contained in this special issue. It will conclude by examining how debates on the Anglo-Scottish border, and its borderlands, can be located within recent attempts to reconceptualize borders and bordering.

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“…One can now identify a second generation of research -what Parker et al (Parker and Vaughn-Williams 2009) term 'critical border studies' -in which a somewhat more skeptical but also more nuanced picture has coalesced. 1 We share many of the concerns of these investigations of gated globalism, especially their sense that we are witnessing a redeployment and reactivation of borders under new conditions.…”

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The International Organization for Migration and the International Government of Borders

2010

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Early debates often read globalization as a powerful tendency destined to make state borders less pertinent. Recent research has challenged this view by suggesting that globalization and (re-)bordering frequently advance hand in hand, culminating in a condition that might be described as 'gated globalism'. But somewhat neglected in this recent wave of research is the role that particular international agencies are playing in shaping the norms and forms that pertain to emergent regimes of border control -what we call the international government of borders. Focusing on the International Organization for Migration and its involvement in the promotion of what it calls better 'border management', this paper aims to partially redress this oversight. The IOM is interesting because it illustrates how the control of borders has become constituted as an object of technical expertise and intervention within programmes and schemes of international authority. Two themes are pursued. First, recent work on neoliberal governmentality is useful for illuminating the forms of power and subtle mechanisms of influence which chracterize the IOM's attempt to managerialize border policies in countries as different as Ethiopia, Serbia and Armenia. Second, the international government of borders comprises diverse and heterogeneous practices, ranging from the hosting of training seminars for local security and migration officials, to the promotion of schemes to purchase and install cutting-edge surveillance equipment. In such different ways one can observe in very material terms how the project of making borders into a problem of 'management' conflicts with a perception of borders as a site of social struggle and politics.

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Lines in the Sand? Towards an Agenda for Critical Border Studies

Cited by 275 publications

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Placing Borders in Development

Placing Borders in Development

Bringing the Anglo-Scottish Border “Back in”: Reassessing Cross-border Relations in the Context of Greater Scottish Autonomy

The International Organization for Migration and the International Government of Borders

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