Reece Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reece Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reece |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9052-3793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 961 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Trump
El objetivo de este foro de debate es entender si el gobierno de Donald Trump en los Estados Unidos es una anomalía en el orden geopolítico que nació tras la Guerra Fría o si anuncia un nuevo orden geopolítico. En la actualidad, el poder global se caracteriza por una transformación profunda en sus formas y actores. Ya no existe una única geometría de poder basada exclusivamente en la hegemonía de grandes potencias o en la clásica disputa de esfer…
Trump
The aim of this discussion forum is to understand whether the Donald Trump administration in the United States is an anomaly in the geopolitical order that emerged after the Cold War or whether it heralds a new geopolitical order. Currently, global power is characterized by a profound transformation in its forms and actors. There is no longer a single geometry of power based exclusively on the hegemony of great powers or on the classic struggle f…
Political geography III
The third progress report on political geography focuses on authoritarian geographies around the world. Although most studies analyze the practice of authoritarianism in a particular country, several themes are evident across these distinct local contexts: a sense of grievance, a perception that a chosen group has been replaced or threatened, a certainty that an outside group is to blame, and a desire to act, at almost any cost, to restore the ch…
Political geography II
The post-World War II consensus on the inviolability of sovereignty and territorial integrity has changed dramatically in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. The relatively stable relations between sovereign states in the United Nations era have frayed and the liberal international order, the American and European dominance of global affairs upheld through the maintenance of the rules-based status quo, is under threat from different ac…
Political geography I
This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the political geographies of oceans. While oceans were overlooked for many years as theories of sovereignty, territory, and borders focused on terrestrial politics, the significant impact of climate change resulted in a new focus on the role oceans place in global environmental and political systems. At the same time, the enclosure of over 40 percent of the oceans as territorial seas…
Interventions on public geographies
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
Rethinking borders, violence, and conflict
This article advances the understanding of borders with respect to their epistemological, ontological, and empirical intersections with violence and conflict, which remain understudied within critical border studies. Specifically, the article explores the potential of recent interdisciplinary research on the border-migration nexus to find critical resources that might foster a better understanding of the complex relationships between borders, vio…
Open Borders
Open Borders
Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration
From Violent Borders
In November 2014, I led a weekend trip to Morocco for American students studying in Spain. It was rainy on the day we took the ferry across the Strait of Gibraltar from Algeciras to Tangier. It was
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people displaced by conflict in 2015, the majority of which were from Asia. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly crosses the India border to visit family, of Muslims from India living in Gulf countries for work, and the harrowin…
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia -the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania.Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities.The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas.It considers territorial…
Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border
Placing the Border in Everyday Life
This chapter explores that unique border negotiation, namely prisoner employment as the cornerstone of successful rehabilitation, and examines the implications of this type of boundary interaction upon prisoner identities. It attends to the hybridity of ex-offender constructions of 'home'. The chapter illustrates the strong ties to prison and its problematic relationship with the high levels of recidivism that Britain is currently experiencing. I…
The biopolitics and geopolitics of border enforcement in Melilla
The biopolitics and geopolitics of border enforcement in Melilla. Territory, Politics, Governance. This article uses the multiple and contradictory realities of Melilla, a pene-enclave and -exclave of Spain in North Africa, to draw out the contemporary practice of Spanish, European Union, and Moroccan immigration enforcement policies. The city is many things at once: a piece of Europe in North Africa and a symbol of Spain’s colonial history; an e…
Building Walls and Dissolving Borders
Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community, and Securitizing Space." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32(1), pp. 123–124
The West Bank Wall
This introduction to the special issue sets out to bring some clarity and organization to the diverse bodies of literature on the construction, lived experience, and consequences of the West Bank Wall. We review the literature on the Wall and identify three broad themes: the significance of the Wall in the context of political negotiations, its disruption of daily life in the West Bank, and its role as a symbol in broader debates about sovereignt…
Border militarisation and the re‐articulation of sovereignty
This paper identifies a global trend towards hardened, militarised borders through the use of military technologies, hardware and personnel. In contrast to claims of waning state sovereignty, drawing on detailed case studies from the United States and European Union, we argue the militarisation of borders represents a re‐articulation and expansion of state sovereignty into new spaces and arenas. We argue that the nexus of military‐security contra…
The false premise of partition
Partitions are based on two fundamental assumptions: identity groups exist that can be located, named and categorized, and these categories are attached to distinct territories. Drawing on the Partition of British India, this paper analyses how the differences between the categories “Hindu” and “Muslim” were developed through narratives and events such as the creation of maps and censuses, the emergence of religious revivalist movements, and the …
Beyond Walls and Cages
2013). BEYOND WALLS AND CAGES: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. Geographical Review: Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 306-308
Why Walls Won't Work
2013). WHY WALLS WON'T WORK: Repairing the US‐Mexico Divide. Geographical Review: Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 306-308
Border Wars
This paper analyzes the visual and narrative representation of the US-Mexico border in the National Geographic television show Border Wars. The show is significant because it brings the hidden and often opaque borderlands into the homes of millions of Americans, and viewers around the world, every week. It transforms the unknown space of the border into a series of images and stories that create a coherent narrative for the viewer. The representa…
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
Categories, borders and boundaries
In recent years, categories have been a topic of substantial research in the social sciences and humanities. Although many problematic categories such as culture, gender and scale have been criticized, moving beyond them has proved to be surprisingly difficult. This paper attributes this difficulty to what is termed the paradox of categories and argues that the key problems with categories emerge from the contradictory ways their boundaries are i…
Rethinking borders, violence, and conflict
This article advances the understanding of borders with respect to their epistemological, ontological, and empirical intersections with violence and conflict, which remain understudied within critical border studies. Specifically, the article explores the potential of recent interdisciplinary research on the border-migration nexus to find critical resources that might foster a better understanding of the complex relationships between borders, vio…
Border militarisation and the re‐articulation of sovereignty
This paper identifies a global trend towards hardened, militarised borders through the use of military technologies, hardware and personnel. In contrast to claims of waning state sovereignty, drawing on detailed case studies from the United States and European Union, we argue the militarisation of borders represents a re‐articulation and expansion of state sovereignty into new spaces and arenas. We argue that the nexus of military‐security contra…
Spaces of Refusal
This article investigates local actions that transgress, subvert, and ignore the imposition of sovereign authority at the borders of sovereign states. It describes the creation and gradual securitization of the 4,096-km border between India and Bangladesh, which has culminated with the construction of roads, floodlights, and fences on the majority of the previously open and lightly guarded border. Then, by drawing on interviews with borderland re…
Agents of Exception
The narratives of fear and uncertainty from the discourse of the 'global war on terror' have been used by many governments to expand securitization processes. As more aggressive security tactics have been deployed, scholars have sought to understand the changing relationship between individual rights and the authority of sovereign states by drawing on Giorgio Agamben's insights into the state of exception. In this paper I argue that borderlands a…
Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border
Geopolitical boundary narratives, the global war on terror and border fencing in India
This article investigates how expansive new security projects have gained both legitimacy and immediacy as part of the ‘global war on terror’ by analysing the process that led to the fencing and securitising of the border between India and Bangladesh. The framing of the ‘enemy other’ in the global war on terror relies on two crucial shifts from previous geopolitical boundary narratives. First, the enemy other is described as not only being violen…
Sovereignty and statelessness in the border enclaves of India and Bangladesh
Why Walls Won't Work
2013). WHY WALLS WON'T WORK: Repairing the US‐Mexico Divide. Geographical Review: Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 306-308
Teichopolitics
This article considers the trend in many countries towards securitised immigration policies and “hardening” of borders through the construction of walls or fences. In contrast the borderless world of globalisation, it identifies these attempts to strengthen control of borders as teichopolitics: the politics of building barriers. This article analyses the different types of hardened borders that exist today and proposes a typology of frontlines, f…
Locating the territoriality of territory in border studies
The spatiality of boundaries
The biopolitics and geopolitics of border enforcement in Melilla
The biopolitics and geopolitics of border enforcement in Melilla. Territory, Politics, Governance. This article uses the multiple and contradictory realities of Melilla, a pene-enclave and -exclave of Spain in North Africa, to draw out the contemporary practice of Spanish, European Union, and Moroccan immigration enforcement policies. The city is many things at once: a piece of Europe in North Africa and a symbol of Spain’s colonial history; an e…
Interventions on public geographies
Border security, 9/11 and the enclosure of civilisation
Criminals, Terrorists, and Outside Agitators
This article is a critical geopolitical analysis of Chinese media representations of the 5 July 2009 riots in Xinjiang, China. Significant events often define the geopolitical climate by creating a space for the construction of boundaries between identity categories and the appropriate norms for behaviour towards the Other. The post-riot reports framed the event through the prism of the global war on terror to justify a violent response to protec…
Sacred cows and thumping drums
Theories that explain the origins of communal violence in South Asia often point to the discursive creation of the perception of distinct and adversarial Hindu and Muslim identity categories at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper argues that these theories overemphasize imagined social differences without adequately considering how these boundaries were territorialized in everyday life through performative place‐making practices. I…
Dreaming of a Golden Bengal
This article analyses five different representations of the homeland category “Bengal”. The region of Bengal was partitioned twice in the twentieth century and imagined in a multitude of forms at different historical moments. The article describes the conditions that allowed different territories and peoples to crystallise as “Bengal” and “the Bengalis”, and investigates why some versions of the Bengali homeland proved durable as others faded awa…
Beyond Walls and Cages
2013). BEYOND WALLS AND CAGES: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. Geographical Review: Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 306-308
Political geography I
This report provides an overview of contemporary scholarship on the political geographies of oceans. While oceans were overlooked for many years as theories of sovereignty, territory, and borders focused on terrestrial politics, the significant impact of climate change resulted in a new focus on the role oceans place in global environmental and political systems. At the same time, the enclosure of over 40 percent of the oceans as territorial seas…
The West Bank Wall
This introduction to the special issue sets out to bring some clarity and organization to the diverse bodies of literature on the construction, lived experience, and consequences of the West Bank Wall. We review the literature on the Wall and identify three broad themes: the significance of the Wall in the context of political negotiations, its disruption of daily life in the West Bank, and its role as a symbol in broader debates about sovereignt…
Searching for the greatest Bengali
Drawing on debates generated by the BBC Bengali Language Service's naming of the greatest Bengali of all time, this article investigates the shifting boundaries between group identity categories in our ‘globalising’ world. First, the controversy over the meaning of the term ‘Bengali’, which emerged in contemporary Bangladesh and India in response to the BBC's list, is investigated. Then writings and speeches of several of the individuals who were…
Border Wars
This paper analyzes the visual and narrative representation of the US-Mexico border in the National Geographic television show Border Wars. The show is significant because it brings the hidden and often opaque borderlands into the homes of millions of Americans, and viewers around the world, every week. It transforms the unknown space of the border into a series of images and stories that create a coherent narrative for the viewer. The representa…
Whose Homeland? Territoriality and Religious Nationalism in Pre-Partition Bengal
Scholarly inquiries into communalism in South Asia have often exclusively focused on politically constructed religious and ethnic identity categories. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that territoriality and the designation of homelands played an important, but largely unrecognized, role in developing social and political boundaries in the region. By analyzing the writings of Bipin Chandra Pal during the Swadeshi period, this …
Whose Homeland? Territoriality and Religious Nationalism in Pre-Partition Bengal
Scholarly inquiries into communalism in South Asia have often exclusively focused on politically constructed religious and ethnic identity categories. This article challenges these assumptions by arguing that territoriality and the designation of homelands played an important, but largely unrecognized, role in developing social and political boundaries in the region. By analyzing the writings of Bipin Chandra Pal during the Swadeshi period, this …
Sacred cows and thumping drums
Theories that explain the origins of communal violence in South Asia often point to the discursive creation of the perception of distinct and adversarial Hindu and Muslim identity categories at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper argues that these theories overemphasize imagined social differences without adequately considering how these boundaries were territorialized in everyday life through performative place‐making practices. I…
Searching for the greatest Bengali
Drawing on debates generated by the BBC Bengali Language Service's naming of the greatest Bengali of all time, this article investigates the shifting boundaries between group identity categories in our ‘globalising’ world. First, the controversy over the meaning of the term ‘Bengali’, which emerged in contemporary Bangladesh and India in response to the BBC's list, is investigated. Then writings and speeches of several of the individuals who were…
Categories, borders and boundaries
In recent years, categories have been a topic of substantial research in the social sciences and humanities. Although many problematic categories such as culture, gender and scale have been criticized, moving beyond them has proved to be surprisingly difficult. This paper attributes this difficulty to what is termed the paradox of categories and argues that the key problems with categories emerge from the contradictory ways their boundaries are i…
Geopolitical boundary narratives, the global war on terror and border fencing in India
This article investigates how expansive new security projects have gained both legitimacy and immediacy as part of the ‘global war on terror’ by analysing the process that led to the fencing and securitising of the border between India and Bangladesh. The framing of the ‘enemy other’ in the global war on terror relies on two crucial shifts from previous geopolitical boundary narratives. First, the enemy other is described as not only being violen…
Sovereignty and statelessness in the border enclaves of India and Bangladesh
Agents of Exception
The narratives of fear and uncertainty from the discourse of the 'global war on terror' have been used by many governments to expand securitization processes. As more aggressive security tactics have been deployed, scholars have sought to understand the changing relationship between individual rights and the authority of sovereign states by drawing on Giorgio Agamben's insights into the state of exception. In this paper I argue that borderlands a…
The spatiality of boundaries
Dreaming of a Golden Bengal
This article analyses five different representations of the homeland category “Bengal”. The region of Bengal was partitioned twice in the twentieth century and imagined in a multitude of forms at different historical moments. The article describes the conditions that allowed different territories and peoples to crystallise as “Bengal” and “the Bengalis”, and investigates why some versions of the Bengali homeland proved durable as others faded awa…
Borders, Histories, Existences
Paula Banerjee, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2010. Reviewed by Reece Jones Borders, Histories, Existences is a welcome addition to the border studies literature. The most important contribution of
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
Border security, 9/11 and the enclosure of civilisation
Border Walls
Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of s…
Why Build a Border Wall
Spaces of Refusal
This article investigates local actions that transgress, subvert, and ignore the imposition of sovereign authority at the borders of sovereign states. It describes the creation and gradual securitization of the 4,096-km border between India and Bangladesh, which has culminated with the construction of roads, floodlights, and fences on the majority of the previously open and lightly guarded border. Then, by drawing on interviews with borderland re…
Criminals, Terrorists, and Outside Agitators
This article is a critical geopolitical analysis of Chinese media representations of the 5 July 2009 riots in Xinjiang, China. Significant events often define the geopolitical climate by creating a space for the construction of boundaries between identity categories and the appropriate norms for behaviour towards the Other. The post-riot reports framed the event through the prism of the global war on terror to justify a violent response to protec…
Borders, sovereignty, and unrecognized states
Teichopolitics
This article considers the trend in many countries towards securitised immigration policies and “hardening” of borders through the construction of walls or fences. In contrast the borderless world of globalisation, it identifies these attempts to strengthen control of borders as teichopolitics: the politics of building barriers. This article analyses the different types of hardened borders that exist today and proposes a typology of frontlines, f…
Beyond Walls and Cages
2013). BEYOND WALLS AND CAGES: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. Geographical Review: Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 306-308
Why Walls Won't Work
2013). WHY WALLS WON'T WORK: Repairing the US‐Mexico Divide. Geographical Review: Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 306-308
The false premise of partition
Partitions are based on two fundamental assumptions: identity groups exist that can be located, named and categorized, and these categories are attached to distinct territories. Drawing on the Partition of British India, this paper analyses how the differences between the categories “Hindu” and “Muslim” were developed through narratives and events such as the creation of maps and censuses, the emergence of religious revivalist movements, and the …
Placing the Border in Everyday Life
This chapter explores that unique border negotiation, namely prisoner employment as the cornerstone of successful rehabilitation, and examines the implications of this type of boundary interaction upon prisoner identities. It attends to the hybridity of ex-offender constructions of 'home'. The chapter illustrates the strong ties to prison and its problematic relationship with the high levels of recidivism that Britain is currently experiencing. I…
The biopolitics and geopolitics of border enforcement in Melilla
The biopolitics and geopolitics of border enforcement in Melilla. Territory, Politics, Governance. This article uses the multiple and contradictory realities of Melilla, a pene-enclave and -exclave of Spain in North Africa, to draw out the contemporary practice of Spanish, European Union, and Moroccan immigration enforcement policies. The city is many things at once: a piece of Europe in North Africa and a symbol of Spain’s colonial history; an e…
Building Walls and Dissolving Borders
Building Walls and Dissolving Borders: The Challenges of Alterity, Community, and Securitizing Space." Journal of Borderlands Studies, 32(1), pp. 123–124
The West Bank Wall
This introduction to the special issue sets out to bring some clarity and organization to the diverse bodies of literature on the construction, lived experience, and consequences of the West Bank Wall. We review the literature on the Wall and identify three broad themes: the significance of the Wall in the context of political negotiations, its disruption of daily life in the West Bank, and its role as a symbol in broader debates about sovereignt…
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Geography (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (13 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (9 works) · Sovereignty (9 works)