The Border as a Marker of Territoriality

Multi-Scalar Perspectives and Multi-Agent Processes in a South American Borderland Region

Bibliographic Data

ID3948524
AuthorsLaetitia Perrier Bruslé (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume18
Issue3
Pages584-611
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2012.749242
OpenAlexW2015679806
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The ambivalence of borders, as both bridges and barriers, is analysed in the South American borderlands, in the cross-border region between Bolivia, Peru and Brazil. The main hypothesis behind this work is that borders not only refer to the state but they are also a result of a social construction. Through their practices and narratives, the actors involved shape the border configuration. Through a multi-scalar approach (from a continental to a local level) and by collating practices and representations of various social agents (from continental organisations to the complexity of social groups on the border), I show that different territorial complexes converge on the border and I explain the spatial dialectic of the latter. Two ideas emerge as a conclusion to this study: the co-existence of territorialities that are not so exclusive and the key role played by the state despite the changes it undergoes

Ambivalence · Dialectic · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geography · Geometry · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Scalar (mathematics · Sociology · State (computer science · Territoriality · Gender Studies · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American Cultural Politics · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Social Psychology

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