Tag: border theory
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(CFP) Association for Borderlands Studies, Annual Conference, 2020, April 1-4, Portland Oregon
2020 Annual Conference April 1-4, 2020 Portland, Oregon, USA Marriott Downtown Waterfront 1401 SW Naito Pkwy In contrast to the complexity and differentiation suggested by much recent academic literature, borders continue to be conceived of and represented by mainstream politics and the media in an overly simplistic way. Much recent political and public debate…
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Moving Borders
This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK Brexit referendum, and subsequent debate, where the rhetoric and symbolism of border controls proved…
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Borders as Weapons
I am giving a couple talks in Sweden this week. Below is the first one given at Linköping University earlier today. Thank you to Stefan Jonsson and Peo Hansen for inviting me and sharing a copy of their book Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (2014). Borders as Weapons The twenty-first century will…
The Philosophy of Movement 