The Imaginary of Borders: From a Coloring Book to Cézanne's Paintings1

Kopper, Ákos

doi:10.1111/j.1749-5687.2012.00164.x

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“…The portrayal of a uniform colour within each compartment exemplifies the modern 'political' which is projected as internally homogenous. In modern dispositif, metaphoric descriptions condense the social reality to render it comprehensible (Kopper, 2012). However, the existence of space of ambiguity exposes the incommensurability of this metaphoric representations and comprehensibility of the violence of colouring the grey areas or rendering it invisible.…”

Section: Rethinking India-bangladesh Borderscapes: Borders and Borderlandersmentioning

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Space and Territoriality

Sarma

2013

International Studies

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Territorial modernity signifies the transformation of the space of fluidity into territories or geometric grids of permanence. Border in International Relations with its constructed disciplinary gaze performs the role of a spatial unit and a decidable between a set of mutually reinforcing dualisms. In mainstream IR theory encrusted within the Western hegemonic discourse, transformations that exemplify the process of territorialization supplements the grammar of territorial epistemology. However, the ontology of the modern bounded ‘political’ marginalizes and makes invisible alternative mode of being. In post-colonial practices of South Asia, the dispositif of territorial modernity as a universal discourse and the ‘international’ is suggestive of resistance and contestations articulated via certain categories of bodies. This is prominent at the periphery of the post-colonial nation-states, as the actions of certain recalcitrant bodies often problematize the reified international. By taking the case study of the chars or river islands that often shift their location along India–Bangladesh riverine border, the paper also seeks to understand the political in these zones of indistinction and its (dis) association with the normative space that territoriality enacted in the first place.

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Section: Rethinking India-bangladesh Borderscapes: Borders and Borderlandersmentioning

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Space and Territoriality

Sarma

2013

International Studies

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“…The call for papers for the first issue of International Political Sociology looked for researches concentrating on "frontiers, boundaries and limits" as well as "surveillance and security technologies" (a call that was followed up by several published articles, see Doty 2007;Löwenheim 2007;Salter 2007;Buckel and Wissel 2010;Jiron 2010;Mau 2010;Margheritis 2011;Karyotis 2012;Kopper 2012;Thomas 2014). The focus on already set boundaries and their consequences in everyday practices participate in an international political sociology's interest in the quotidian and the mundane over the exceptional through a reflexive perspective.…”

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Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology

Guillaume

Bilgin

2016

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When compared to traditional approaches to security studies, critical approaches to security studies are often presented in terms of a deepening and widening of the security studies' agenda (Krause and Williams 1997). In that version of disciplinary history, traditional security studies scholars are represented as people focusing on state-centric approaches with a more solid ontology; with a clear understanding of key concepts such as national interest, national security, and so on, and their implications on international politics, as well as a less flexible epistemology. From that standpoint, critical approaches to security studies are seen as a disruption of that existing agenda. As part of the deepening/widening meta-narrative of critical approaches to security studies, the contributions of these approaches are represented in terms of the inclusion of different scales (human security, cosmopolitan security, urban security, etc.) as well as different issue areas (borders, environment, immigration, maritime security, etc.) into security studies' agenda. Our chapter concentrates on introducing how international political sociology has helped developed the critical agenda in security studies; we move away from a deepening/ widening perspective that is common in such review chapters and instead present a review of some of the thematic contributions in an international political sociology to security studies, in the form of a discussion of such concepts as materialities, practices, relationalities, reflexivity and the micro-politics of the everyday (for a broader reflection about security, see Burgess in this volume).International political sociology seems to enjoy an organic relationship with security studies, considered in the broader sense of the concept to include approaches that focus on discourses, practices and technologies of security. Most notably, those scholars interested in the political sociology of international security seem to focus on the everyday over the exceptional, as well as on the 'everydayness' of the exceptional in their studies of what counts as security today through reflexive lenses that regularly questions the ontological and epistemological assumptions of security's concepts and theories. This preference makes an international political sociology approach particularly engaging within the context of contemporary security studies scholarship. A majority of the all-time most-cited articles published in the journal International Political Sociology have a security focus (Dillon 2007;Salter 2007; Huysmans 2008, among others), yet unlike traditional approaches to security, these publications focus on the new materialities, practices, relationalities, reflexivity and the micro-politics of security in an attempt to see the effects of 'security' on the everyday. More specifically, a common theme is on the (in)security practices of security actors in

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‘Children and armed conflict’ and the field of security studies

Jacob

2015

Critical Studies on Security

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Sociological studies in childhood have successfully carved out a research agenda that establishes children as worthy research subjects in their own right. This insight has impacted on international relations (IR) very late compared to similar developments throughout the social sciences given the perceived marginality of children to 'central' IR discussions of power, sovereignty, and security. A number of IR scholars have engaged with critical security studies and pioneered work that has justified the relevance of children to IR. This article goes a step further to build on this emergent body of important literature, advocating a Bourdieu-inspired conceptualization of child security in global politics. This approach to the study of children affected by armed conflict contributes theoretical insights for critical security studies, including the way we see civilians in conflict zones and humanitarian spaces, and pointing to the political implications of locating children in the social-political spaces of conflict and security.

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The Imaginary of Borders: From a Coloring Book to Cézanne's Paintings1

Cited by 4 publications

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‘Children and armed conflict’ and the field of security studies

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