Boundaries and Borders

Bibliographic Data

ID23644456
AuthorsAnne-Laure Amilhat Szary (0000-0003-4323-9604, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, corresponding author), Anne‐Laure Amilhat Szary
Year2015
Pages11-25
Publication date2015-09-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118725771.ch2
OpenAlexW1819311739
ISBN9781118725771
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited37

Symbolic artifacts that help to understand and define spatial discontinuities, boundaries, and borders are essential to our territorial alphabet. The chapter first recalls the historical construction of a bounded form of thinking (spatially) within the Western world, according to a model that was disseminated worldwide through colonization. The focus that globalization provides on flows and networks profoundly questions the nature of boundaries and borders, making them appear more and more topological. In this context, where de/rebordering processes cannot be considered symmetric to de/reterritorialization processes, contemporary borders have to be grasped through their portativity, considering a change of focus toward the individual and his/her personalization of a mobile device. The chapter ends by sketching the premises of an ontology of the mobile border, allowing time and instability to be instilled in a renewed analysis of spatial limits.

Boundary (topology) · Bounded function · Context (archaeology) · Economic geography · Focus (optics) · Geography · Sociology · China's Global Influence and Migration · Computer Science · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Mathematics · Migration and Exile Studies