Tag: borders
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The Politics of Movement: An Interview with Thomas Nail
Here is an interview I did on the politics of movement with Nico Buitendag for his podcast, Undisciplined. The last three interviews were with Andrew Culp, Sandro Mezzadra, and Simon Springer. Check them all out here.
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Expansion / Expulsion (Review of The Figure of the Migrant)
I just came across a review of The Figure of the Migrant I had not seen before in New Formations, Vol. 89/90: Death and the Contemporary (2016): pp. 256-259. [DOI: 10.398/NEWF:89/90.REV06.2016] Expansion / Expulsion Kevin M. Potter Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2015, 295pp As the twenty-first-century political and social…
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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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Mobile Borders (Confini Mobili)
For those of you who read Italian, Tommaso Morawski and Ernesto C. Sferrazza Papa have just published a lovely edited special issue on “Philosophy and Cartography” in Pólemos: Materiali di filosofia e critica sociale. FILOSOFIA E CARTOGRAFIA: PROSPETTIVE STORICHE, TEORICHE, ESTETICHE E POLITICHE Ernesto kindly translated my contribution: CONFINI MOBILI Thomas Nail Introduzione Questo saggio introduce una…
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Sanctuary, Solidarity, Status!, Thomas Nail (2018)
I just got my copy of Open Borders, edited by Reece Jones. This is a landmark collection of work on open borders and is filled with excellent contributions. I will definitely be teaching from this! You can read my chapter from the book here. Abstract The aim of this chapter is to describe the current possible…
The Philosophy of Movement 