GEOG 381: Borders
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The lines that continue to separate us Borders in our ‘borderless’ world
“What we have come to call a globalized world harbours fundamental tensions between opening and barricading, fusion and partition, erasure and reinscription”
-Wendy Brown (2010)
What's in a line?
• Borders as territorial edges
• Borders as walls
• Borders as transition spaces
• Borders as architects of identity formation
• Borders as institutions of knowledge
Borders make territories
• If a border is a line, a series of closed lines create a territory. We read maps as a series of borderlines.
• As critical political geographers, we will challenge those lines, and in doing so, what matter-of-fact position those lines have in the way space is made.
Border spaces: there are seemingly different borders at work in Israel/Palestine, the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, and Wall Street to organize, manage, and exclude, but they are borders nonetheless.
• Often thought of as ‘check points’ or security apparatuses (i.e. ‘the Green Zone’, Israel-Palestine).
• Still more often those borders are not policed or patrolled but produced through a range of activities, organizations, and actors.
• Borders, then become a spatial power that gives order to our daily lives.
Border spaces
Borders as metaphor, as framing knowledge and identity:nationalism, religion, gender