Through Metal Fences: Material Mobility and the Politics of Transnationality at Borders

Sur, Malini

doi:10.1080/17450101.2012.747778

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“…4 Future geographies: Situating maritime borders by interlacing the processual, material, and mobility turns Generally speaking, border studies has progressed via a series of different "turns," including the "processual turn," (Brambilla, 2015;Yuval-Davis et al, 2019), the "mobility turn" (Salter, 2013;Steinberg, 2009), and the "material turn" (Sur, 2013). However, while these "turns" have re-orienting border studies in productive ways that rethink borders as more than rigid and fixed lines, they have reconceptualized borders mainly with reference to terrestrial frameworks.…”

Section: Maritime Border and Volumetric Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maritime borders: A reconsideration of state power and territorialities over the ocean

Hung

Lien

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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While borders traverse both land and sea, current research has mostly concentrated on issues concerning terrestrial borders. Simultaneously, a new body of scholarship has shown how the seemingly boundless oceans are in actuality subject to a variety of bordering forces. As such, we review current research on maritime borders in geography and other related disciplines in three categories: oceanic resource extraction and environmental conservation, volume geography and wet ontology, and concepts of ocean frontiers and voluminous states. Conclusively, we propose land-ocean inter-bordering, multiple materialities, and mobile state power as three future issues to respond to the rapid-changing maritime borders.

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Section: Maritime Border and Volumetric Geographiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maritime borders: A reconsideration of state power and territorialities over the ocean

Hung

Lien

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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“…These provisions have been crafted in accordance to specific political histories and exigencies and differ from state to state. Anxieties around nationalism, integration and loyalty of these areas is further compounded by the history of insurgency, cultural and historical distinction of the region from mainland India, external threats, especially from China Sur 2013).…”

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Development Zones in Asian Borderlands

Chettri¹,

Eilenberg

2021

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Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.

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“…As Ferdoush () showed in his study of the 2015 India‐Bangladesh exchange of border enclaves, where the overwhelming majority of Indian‐origin stateless persons chose Bangladeshi citizenship (and vice versa), the borderlands express the limits of national belonging and the disjuncture between citizenship and territory. This process of cultivating the nation and its enforcement at the border is the domain of a range of state institutions and paramilitary forces that imbue the borderlands as a paradoxical space of exchange and exclusion (Cons & Sanyal, ; Jones, ; Sur, ). The borderlands signify the fraught divisions between “self” and “other” that occupy the very center of the nation's people and the state's territory.…”

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Postcolonial geographies and colonialism's mutations: The geo‐graphing of South Asia

Ashutosh

2019

Geography Compass

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This article builds on postcolonial geography's concepts of imaginative geographies, worlding, and subaltern geopolitics by applying them to an examination of South Asia's regional formation in the mid-20th century. Following a review of debates in postcolonial geography, I analyze the mutations of colonialism as they shaped the dynamics of South Asia in the wake of formal decolonization. First, the Indian subcontinent's partition inscribed colonial knowledge onto the imaginative geographies of postcolonial nation-states. Second, South Asia was symptomatic of the Cold War's process of worlding, as reflected in the division of global space and the forms of knowledge generated by American area studies. Third, decolonization and postcolonial migrations provided subaltern geopolitical configurations of the region in tension with the nation-state. This analysis emphasizes postcolonial geography's value in tracking colonialism's shifts across networks of empire and in the passage from anticolonial movements to postcolonial state territorialization.

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Through Metal Fences: Material Mobility and the Politics of Transnationality at Borders

Cited by 36 publications

References 24 publications

Maritime borders: A reconsideration of state power and territorialities over the ocean

Maritime borders: A reconsideration of state power and territorialities over the ocean

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands

Postcolonial geographies and colonialism's mutations: The geo‐graphing of South Asia

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