The Political Materialities of Borders

New Theoretical Directions

Olga Demetriou, Rozita Dimova (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

2018
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2385-5 (ISBN)

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The Political Materialities of Borders seeks to produce social theory at/from the border; rather than apprehending the border as mere epiphenomenon to urban or state-driven social theoretical dynamics, it calls for a specificity to the border in border studies as a rejuvenated space for theoretical enquiry. -- .

The political materialities of borders aims to bring questions of materiality to bear specifically on the study of borders. In doing this, the contributors have chosen an approach that does not presume the material aspect of borders but rather explores the ways in which any such materiality comes into being. Through ethnographic and philosophical explorations of the ontology of borders from the perspective of materiality, this volume seeks to throw light on the interaction between the materiality of state borders and the non-material aspects of state-making. This enables, it is shown, a new understanding of borders as productive of the politics of materiality, on which both the state project rests, including in its multifarious forms in the post-nation-state era. -- .

Olga Demetriou is Associate Professor in Post-Conflict Reconstruction and State-Building at the Durham Global Security Institute at Durham University Rozita Dimova is a Cultural Anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Language and Cultures, Slavonic and East European Studies, Ghent University -- .

Preface
1. Introduction: theorising material / nonmaterial mediations on the border - Olga Demetriou and Rozita Dimova
2. Materiality, imbrication, and the longue durée of Greco-Turkish borders - Olga Demetriou
3. Memory as border work: the 2008 Italy–Libya friendship treaty and the reassembling of fortress Europe - Chiara De Cesari
4. Ontologies of borders: the difference of Deleuze and Derrida - Tuija Pulkkinen
5. Lines, traces and tidemarks: further reflections on forms of border - Sarah Green
6. Materialising the border-as-line in Sarajevo - Stef Jansen
7. Borders as ghosts - Eleni Myrivili
8. Materialities of displacement: Borders in contemporary Macedonia - Rozita Dimova -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2019
Reihe/Serie	Rethinking Borders
Zusatzinfo	2 Maps
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5261-2385-1 / 1526123851
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-2385-5 / 9781526123855
Zustand	Neuware