Borderities and the politics of contemporary mobile borders

The authors look at transformations affecting border spaces, by using the concept of the 'mobile border' to examine the growing dissociation between border functions and border locations. The book bears witness to the claim that de/rebordering and de/reterritorialization processes are not equivalent. It questions them through the analysis of 'borderities, ' a concept built upon a close reading of the writings of Michel Foucault and derived from 'governmentality.' 'Borderity, ' any technology of spatial or socio-spatial division, could be defined as the governmentality of territorial limits. Although initially defined as a technology of power, borderity may also appear as a differentiated social and political quality. The contributors examine the production of mobile borders (section 1: technologies), their incarnation (section 2: biopolitics) and their complex interpretation (section 3: 'dispositifs'). By looking at how political subjects can be disabled and enabled, the proposed 'borderities' approach illuminates the question of how borders can be the site of both power and counter-power. Read more... Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Borderities: The Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders....Pages 1-19 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Bordering Capabilities versus Borders: Implications for National Borders....Pages 23-52 Nations Outside Their Borders: How Extraterritorial Concessions Reinforce Sovereignty....Pages 53-67 The Politics of Eco-frontiers: When Environmentality Meets Borderities....Pages 68-84 The Border in the Pocket: The Passport as a Boundary Object....Pages 85-99 Controlling Mobility: Embodying Borders....Pages 100-115 Front Matter....Pages 117-117 Mobile and Fatal: The EU Borders....Pages 119-137 Mobile Euro/African Borderscapes: Migrant Communities and Shifting Urban Margins....Pages 138-154 Ethnographic Notes on ‘Camp’: Centrifugality and Liminality on the Rainforest Frontier....Pages 155-170 Smuggling: Power Networks, Moral Geographies and Norm Enforcement at Work at Southern Cone Borders....Pages 171-187 Front Matter....Pages 189-189 Rethinking Borders in a Mobile World: An Alternative Model....Pages 191-203 Mapping Mobile Borders: Critical Cartographies of Borders Based on Migration Experiences....Pages 204-223 Tangier, Mobile City: Re-making Borders in the Straits of Gibraltar....Pages 224-240 Territorial and Non-territorial: The Mobile Borders of Migration Controls....Pages 241-255 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Alternative Ways of Mapping the Wound or Symbolic Borderities....Pages 259-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-306 This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the epistemological and political questions that they raise. The 'borderities' approach illuminates the question of how borders can be the site of both power and counter-power.