Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Toward a New Art of Border Crossing

Av Ananta Kumar Giri, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, David Blake Willis

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Boundaries, borders and margins are related concepts and realities, and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open ways—with degrees of closure or openness. The logics of stasis and closure, as well as cults of exclusivist and exclusionary sovereignty, are reflected and embodied in the closed xenophobic conceptualization and organization of boundaries, borders and margins. But, an open conceptualization of the borderlands, where mixing and hybridity take place at a rapid, even dizzying, pace, gives rise to Creolization—at the threshold of sovereignties, which can also be imagined. At present, our border zones are spaces of anxiety-ridden security arrangements, violence and death. The existing politics of boundary maintenance is wedded to a cult of sovereignty at various levels, which produces bare lives, bodies and lands. We need the new art of border-crossing to be defined by the notion of camaraderie and shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. Border zones can also be zones of meetings, communication, transcendence and festive celebration of the limits of our identities. Thus, we need a new art and politics of boundary transmutation, transformation and transcendence, in the broadest possible sense, that entails the production of spatial, scalar, somatic, cognitive, affective and spiritual transitions.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2024-11-05
Mått: 153 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt: 454 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 326
Förlag: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9781839986383

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Ananta Kumar Giri is a professor (sociology and anthropology) at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.Arnab Roy Chowdhury is an assistant professor (sociology) at the Higher School of Economics Moscow (HSE) University, Moscow, Russian Federation.David Blake Willis is a professor of anthropology and education at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, USA.

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“We humans have trouble with borders and border crossing—psychologically, socially, culturally, intellectually, artistically, economically, and politically as well as ecologically and geopolitically. This is the case in particular in twenty-first-century society faced, as it is, with multiple intertwined crises impacting every level. In this collection, 24 authors of diverse nationalities and disciplinary backgrounds probe this knotty problem relative to a variety of regions of the globe. Overall, their varied explorations amount to nothing less than a journey across borders, opening paths toward sustainable and humane survival. One comes away with an acute sense that the ideas of borders and border crossing matter—to us and the society in which we live right now.” —Piet Strydom, University College Cork, Ireland.

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