1st Edition

Critical Border Studies Broadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda

Edited By Noel Parker, Nick Vaughan-Williams Copyright 2014
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Critical Border Studies: Broadening and Deepening the ‘Lines in the Sand’ Agenda  2. Theory of the / : The Suture and Critical Border Studies  3. Carl Schmitt and the Concept of the Border  4. Picking and Choosing the ‘Sovereign’ Border: A Theory of Changing State Bordering Practices  5. Sloterdijk in the House! Dwelling in the Borderscape of Germany and The Netherlands  6. Cartopolitics, Geopolitics and Boundaries in the Arctic  7. Off-shoring and Out-sourcing the Borders of EUrope: Libya and EU Border Work in the Mediterranean  8. Mixed Legacies in Contested Borderlands: Skardu and the Kashmir Dispute  9. Towards a Multiperspectival Study of Borders

Biography

Noel Parker is Associate Professor in Political Theory and the History of Ideas at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His books include Empire and International Order (2012); The Geopolitics of Europe’s Boundaries: Spaces, Centres and Margins (2008); and Margins in European Integration (2000).

Nick Vaughan-Williams is Reader in International Security, University of Warwick, UK. His books include: Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power (2009, 2012) (2011 Gold Winner, Association for Borderlands Studies); Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (2010); Critical Theorists and International Relations (2009) and Terrorism and the Politics of Response (2009).