Border and Bordering Practices from the Cinematic Lens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9976751
AutoresShubhi Misra (Jawaharlal Nehru University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen50
Número1-2
Páginas35-54
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-8817 • E-ISSN: 0973-0702
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0020881716654383
OpenAlexW2559469719
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas18

The article considers the interface between border and popular culture by examining five selected films. Borders are those establishments which not only mark the limit of territory but also are the entities within and around which the interplay of integration and differentiation takes place. Are the existing borders disappearing in the wake of transnational activities, thereby transforming the world into a borderless space, or have they assumed a metamorphosed less visible yet stringent form? There is a clear indication of evolving (b)ordered spaces in the complex web of everyday bordering practices in the society at multiple levels. The article involves critical engagement of events, activities, exchange and other transactions occurring around border, borderland and bordering space. Out of the three tenets of critical geopolitics, the article looks at popular geopolitics and indulges in the cinematic manifestation of borders and related cross-border instances. The article relies upon the Internet Movie Data base (IMDb) as the source of films on border issues

Geopolitics · Lens (geology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Through-the-lens metering · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration