The intimate borders of epidemiological nationalism

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ID18968320
AuthorsBryonny Goodwin‐hawkin (0000-0002-9399-5486, Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods, corresponding author), Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD), UK [email protected])
Year2020
Volume27
Issue3
Pages67-70
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology in Action (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0967-201X • E-ISSN: 1752-2285
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/aia.2020.270314
OpenAlexW3112454257
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, nation-states closed borders. Borders divide – and intimate difference. In this article, I trace an emergent epidemiological nationalism which intimates a contagious other, taking ‘the’ border as my (unstable) object. While post-war and post-wall European projects celebrate dismantling borders, bordering continually becomes by saturating space with territoriality. Illustrating epidemiological nationalism’s intimately located here and there, I turn an ethnographic gaze to Wales: a nation yet not a state, with a border that cannot be closed. Through the socio-spatial saturate of the Welsh border’s enduring (non)existence run frictive, entangled intimacies. Meshing border studies with Lauren Berlant’s theorisation of intimacies, I show epidemiology’s conscription in imaginatively inscribing a safely state-like Welsh nation

Geography · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Territoriality · Welsh · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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