Border Politics

The Limits of Sovereign Power

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Av Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Birmingham) Vaughan-Williams, Nick (Interim Provost and Vice-Principal

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This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the possibility that the concept of the border of the state is being reconfigured in contemporary political life.The author uses critical resources found in poststructuralist thought to think in new ways about the relationship between borders, security and sovereign power, drawing on a range of thinkers including Agamben, Derrida and Foucault. He highlights the necessity of a more pluralized and radicalised view of what borders are and where they might be found and uses the problem of borders to critically explore the innovations and limits of poststructuralist scholarship.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-02-29
Mått156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt320 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748644858

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Introduction; 1. Borders are Not What or Where They are Supposed to Be: Security, Territory, Law; 2. The Study of Borders in Global Politics: From Geopolitics to Biopolitics; 3. Violence, Territory and the Borders of Juridical-Political Order: Problematising the Limits of Sovereign Power; 4. The Generalised Biopolitical Border: Security as the Normal Technique of Government; 5. Alternative Border Imaginaries: The Politics of Framing; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Border Politics is a wonderfully ambitious book, which outlines alternative conceptualisations of the border while avoiding the clichéd themes of geopolitical border studies... This is an agenda-setting book, both in terms of demonstrating how new and challenging ideas can be incorporated into border studies, and more importantly, in leading the way in thinking the problem of the border afresh in order to understand the diversity of bordering strategies which exist in world politics.