Border Politics

The Limits of Sovereign Power

AvNick Vaughan-Williams

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

This book presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the possibility that the concept of the border of the state is being reconfigured in contemporary political life.The author uses critical resources found in poststructuralist thought to think in new ways about the relationship between borders, security and sovereign power, drawing on a range of thinkers including Agamben, Derrida and Foucault. He highlights the necessity of a more pluralized and radicalised view of what borders are and where they might be found and uses the problem of borders to critically explore the innovations and limits of poststructuralist scholarship.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-05-12
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:457 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748637324

Utforska kategorier

Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Nick Vaughan-Williams is Interim Provost and Vice-Principal at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is co-author of Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (2010), and co-editor of Critical Theorists and International Relations (2009) and Terrorism and the Politics of Response (2008).

Recensioner i media

Border Politics is a wonderfully ambitious book, which outlines alternative conceptualisations of the border while avoiding the clichéd themes of geopolitical border studies... This is an agenda-setting book, both in terms of demonstrating how new and challenging ideas can be incorporated into border studies, and more importantly, in leading the way in thinking the problem of the border afresh in order to understand the diversity of bordering strategies which exist in world politics.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Borders are Not What or Where They are Supposed to Be: Security, Territory, Law; 2. The Study of Borders in Global Politics: From Geopolitics to Biopolitics; 3. Violence, Territory and the Borders of Juridical-Political Order: Problematising the Limits of Sovereign Power; 4. The Generalised Biopolitical Border: Security as the Normal Technique of Government; 5. Alternative Border Imaginaries: The Politics of Framing; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.