Picking and Choosing the ‘Sovereign’ Border: A Theory of Changing State Bordering Practices

Parker, Nöel; Adler‐Nissen, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/14650045.2012.660582

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“…The revised concept of the border has given rise to a re-conceptualisation of crossborder activities. Different researchers have sought to capture such dynamic and contentious processes by introducing neologisms such as "bordering practices" (Parker and Adler-Nissen 2012), "borderwork" (Rumford 2012), "borderities" (Amilhat-Szary and Giraut 2015), and "borderscapes" (Brambilla 2015). The rich theorisation, nonetheless, has not been matched with equal empirical vigour.…”

Section: Borders and Checkpointsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges

Ngo

Hung

2018

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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This introductory article revisits cross-border shadow exchanges in a comparative perspective and reflects on their theoretical implications. It explores the diversities and complexities of shadow operations and critically examines the concept of informality that is commonly used to describe such non-state-sanctioned practices. It further underlines the key role played by checkpoint politics in border governance. Border checkpoints serve both as a state institution in regulating border crossings as well as a political site where material and power exchanges among state and non-state actors are negotiated. Such negotiation of selective passage through statecontrolled gateways is often predicated upon the skilful manipulation of time and space by experienced traders and brokers.

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Section: Borders and Checkpointsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges

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Hung

2018

Journal of Contemporary Asia

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“…Through the focus on the 'everyday' we can see how bordering practices are carried out by state and international actors as well as by local inhabitants. The latter too need to abide by certain orders at the borderland, such as carrying with them permissions or other documents stating that they can be present in the border area (Parker and Adler-Nissen 2012). However, my informants' Soviet memories are effectively silenced, in other words, they are seen as the past, which should be forgotten.…”

Section: Conceptualising Time B/orders: Memory Mobility Materialitymentioning

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Revitalising Borders: Memory, Mobility and Materiality in a Latvian-Russian Border Region

Lulle

2016

Cult. Unbound

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In this paper I investigate how an international border is 'revitalised' in political discourses as opposed to lived experiences. Based on narratives I have collected from border dwellers on both sides of the current border between Latvia and Russia and placing them into a broader context of current border debates, I analyse how geographical and social mobility is remembered from Soviet times and reworked in current contexts. I argue that while politically the border is revitalised through abandoning and forgetting the Soviet past and through the idea of constant threats in the future, locally it is revitalised through giving a life to the abandoned: memories of 'vigorous times' in life-courses and material things. People who dwell at the border did not move themselves: the international border moved several times in one century leaving border dwellers' memories and significant places on the 'other' side. I focus on how these borders were crossed in the past, how they are (not) crossed now, and the social meanings assigned to these circumstances. In the current context I follow diverse paths of reasoning that describe how the uneven flow of goods and people through the Latvian-Russian border shapes the power dynamic against which the people living in the border area used to reconstruct imaginaries of 'Soviet times' versus 'Europe' and 'vigorous times' versus decline.

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“…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. Far from simply drawing the various kinds of borders as defined lines of division in the TNE field, we map out bordering practices that are understood as 'activities which have the effect … of constituting, sustaining, or modifying borders' (Parker and Adler-Nissen 2012). We are interested in uncovering how borders divide and connect (Mezzadra and Neilson 2013), and how they function as filters for the (unequal) exchange of various forms of value (Kearney 2004).…”

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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Picking and Choosing the ‘Sovereign’ Border: A Theory of Changing State Bordering Practices

Cited by 61 publications

References 10 publications

The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges

The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges

Revitalising Borders: Memory, Mobility and Materiality in a Latvian-Russian Border Region

Educatorssans frontières? Borders and power geometries in transnational education

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