Critical Border Studies

Broadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda

Bibliographic Data

ID3948847
AuthorsNoel Parker (0000-0002-6936-9071, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Nick Vaughan-Williams (0000-0002-1689-5932, University of Warwick)
Year2012
Volume17
Issue4
Pages727-733
Publication date2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2012.706111
OpenAlexW2093049977
LanguageEN
Citations received209

This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature. Although CBS represents a heterogeneous assemblage of thought, the hallmark of the approach is a basic dissatisfaction with the ‘Line in the Sand’ metaphor as an unexamined starting point for the study of borders. A headline feature of each contribution gathered here is a concerted effort to decentre the border. By ‘decentring’ we mean an effort to problematise the border not as taken-for-granted entity, but precisely as a site of investigation. On this view, the border is not something that straightforwardly presents itself in an unmediated way. It is never simply ‘present’, nor fully established, nor obviously accessible. Rather, it is manifold and in a constant state of becoming. Empirically, contributors examine the changing nature of the border in a range of cases, including: the Arctic Circle; German-Dutch borderlands; the India-Pakistan region; and the Mediterranean Sea. Theoretically, chapters draw on a range of critical thinkers in support of a new paradigm for border research. The volume will be of particular interest to border studies scholars in anthropology, human geography, international relations, and political science

Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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