Leave the Lemons at Home

Towards a Political Ecology of Border Space

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3948979
AutoresDavid A Rossiter (Western Washington University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen16
Número1
Páginas107-120
Fecha de publicación2011-01-31
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2010.493777
OpenAlexW2030063393
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

This paper presents a political ecology approach to the study of borders through consideration of a lemon's travels in contemporary North American border space. Following discussion of recent work on the dynamic, multi-scalar, and process-based character of modern borders, I suggest that such critical approaches could be usefully augmented by drawing on ideas about socio-material networks advanced by Bruno Latour. By adopting a political ecology framework, border scholars would be able to consider more fully the materiality of borders and bordering processes. Through the example of the lemon, I demonstrate that in constructing the fruit as a particular socio-material artifact that embodies multiple threats to US national space, it and its carrier become implicated in the regulation of political-economic and geopolitical networks that are seemingly far removed from the object of concern

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philosophy · Ecology