Revisiting ‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’

An Invitation to ‘Migrate’ Towards A Politics of Hope

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10833522
AutoresChiara Brambilla (0000-0002-7148-9320, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali Università degli Studi di Bergamo Piazzale S. Agostino 2 24129 Bergamo Italy, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen112
Número1
Páginas11-17
Fecha de publicación2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0040-747X • E-ISSN: 1467-9663
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tesg.12424
OpenAlexW3029335650
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas23
Referencias citadas21

‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’ is a landmark in the scholarship of the ‘processual turn’ in border studies. This commentary provides some reflections on van Houtum and van Naerssen’s paper that seek to foster not only an appreciation of the research avenues it has opened but also a critical interrogation of its shortcomings. Rethinking borders as processes has significantly contributed to the conceptual evolution of borders. And yet, I am concerned with how the b/ordering‐othering perspective can be questioned and broadened. In so doing, I conclude by taking up van Houtum and van Naerssen’s invitation to problematise the border, questioning certainty and securities provided by the exclusive modern state‐centric way of thinking borders based on fixed and everlasting binary framing, which blind us to the constant state of becoming of political and social order. It’s an invitation to ‘migrate’ towards an alternative politics of hope

Epistemology · Framing (construction · Interrogation · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Systems and Governance