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Thank you for the information. I will have some more knowledge on the borderities reading this material. Regards, Buddhi Kathmandu Nepal Nepal Earth Quaked on 25 April 2015 On 13 June 2015 at 18:08, Frédéric Giraut <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders > > > We are very happy to announce the publication of a book that looks at > the 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. > > > Regards > Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary and Frédéric Giraut > > > If you want to know more about it, cf following links to presentation > flyer and open-access introduction : > > *http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9781137468840_sample.pdf > <http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9781137468840_sample.pdf>* > > *http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/borderities-and-the-politics-of-contemporary-mobile-borders-anne-laure-amilhat-szary/?K=9781137468840 > <http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9781137468840_sample.pdf>* > > > > Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders > > > 1. Borderities: The Politics Of Contemporary Mobile Borders; Anne-Laure > Amilhat-Szary and Frédéric Giraut > > PART I: CONTROLLING MOBILITY THE NORMATIVE POWER OF BORDERITIES > 2. Bordering Capabilities Versus Borders: Implications For National > Borders; Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, USA. > 3. Nations Outside Their Borders: How Extraterritorial Concessions > Reinforce Sovereignty; Michael J. Strauss, Centre d'études diplomatiques > et stratégiques, France. > 4. The Politics Of Eco-Frontiers: When Environmentality Meets Borderities; Sylvain > Guyot, University of Limoges, France. > 5. The Border In The Pocket: Passport As A Boundary Object; Jouni Häkli, > University of Tampere, Finland. > 6. Controlling Mobility: Embodying Borders; Gabriel Popescu, Indiana > University South Bend, USA. > > PART II: BIOPOLITICS. INCARNATING THE MOBILE BORDER > 7. Mobile And Fatal: The EU Borders; Nicolas Lambert and Olivier > Clochard, , CNRS, France. > 8. Mobile Euro/African Borderscapes: Migrant Communities And Shifting > Urban Margins; Chiara Brambilla, Universita di Bergamo, Italy > 9. Ethnographic Notes On 'Camp' – Centrifugality And Liminality On The > Rainforest Frontier; Thomas Hendricks, KU Leuven University, Belgium. > 10. Smuggling: Power Networks, Moral Geographies And Norm Enforcement At > Work At Southern Cone Borders; Adriana Dorfman, Universidad Federal de > Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. > > > PART III: DISPOSITIFS. INTERPRETING COMPLEX AND MOBILE BORDERS > 11. Rethinking Borders In A Mobile World: An Alternative Model; Olivier > Walther and Denis Retaillé, , University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and > Bordeaux University, France. > 12. Mapping Mobile Borders. Critical Cartographies Of Borders Based On > Migration Experiences.; Sarah Mekdjian, Université de Grenoble-Alpes, > France. > 13. Tangier, Mobile City: Re-Making Borders In The Straits Of Gibraltar; Luiza > Bialasiewicz, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands. > 14. Territorial And Non-Territorial: The Mobile Borders Of Migration > Controls; Paolo Cuttitta, VU University Amsterdam. > Epilogue > 15. Alternative Ways Of Mapping The Wound Or Symbolic Borderities; Ariane > Littman, Visual Artist, Israel > > > > 'Border Studies passed in two decades from marginal specialty to > central interdisciplinary field and problematic: it is now a crowded > intellectual public space… Nevertheless, by creating a new concept, > borderities, which at the same time subverts and generalizes the old > 'juridical-territorial' notion, the authors of this book brilliantly > succeed in transforming it, decisively 'mobilizing' the spatial, political, > demographic and esthetic dimensions of a phénomène social total > [comprehensive/total social phenomenon] that is an institution, an > instrument of power and a lived experience, but also, quite often, a > wound.' - Etienne Balibar, author of Equaliberty (2014), Columbia > University, New York, USA > > > 'Anyone who is interested in the workings of borders in a globalized world > should read this book. With the remarkable concept of 'borderity,' this > book goes beyond circular definitions of the state, territory, and borders > – in which each of these terms seems to call forth the others – to instead > usher in a new socio-spatial understanding of the border equal to our > challenging times.' - Anna Secor, University of Kentucky, USA > > > 'Through this important collaborative intervention, Amilhat Szary and > Giraut, at long last, bring the promise of the widely heralded 'spatial > turn' to border studies. Breaking through the by-now tedious incantation > that borders have not disappeared as a result of globalization and 'are > still with us', the contributors to this exciting volume move the > discipline's goalposts by articulating a powerfully normative political > project for border studies, one that is critically attuned to the > geometries of power and their effects in every act of de/re-bordering. > Unafraid of critical social theory, demonstrating a cutting-edge spatial > sensibility and alive to both the epistemological and governmental stakes > of borders-on-the-move (ie, 'borderities'), the volume reveals an > international palette of established border scholarship at the top of its > game, including an up-and-coming generation of voices eager to make their > mark on the field. Their work will challenge us to expand the future > horizon of border studies in richly unanticipated directions.'- Olivier > Thomas Kramsch, Radboud University, The Netherlands > > > 'Fueled by discontent with the 'tautological binding of territory, state > and border,' these authors respond boldly to calls for new border theories. > Their creative collection offers thought-provoking and visually-stimulating > ideas on the separation of border controls from locations. These are new > insights in border studies, a field that is old, but ever-changing.' - > Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada > > Prof. *Frédéric** Giraut* > > Directeur du Département de Géographie et Environnement > > Université de Genève > > Faculté des Sciences de la Société > > Unimail > > 40 bd Pont d'Arve > > 1211 Genève 4 > > Bureau: 6233 > > Tel.: +41.22.379.83.39 > > Mail: [log in to unmask] > > > > http://www.unige.ch/ses/geo/collaborateurs/enseignants/girautfrederic.html > > >