Border Politics : : The Limits of Sovereign Power / / Nick Vaughan-Williams.

Winner of the Gold Award, 2011 Past Presidents' Book Competition, Association of Borderlands StudiesThis 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 sta...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2009
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
Acknowledgements --
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
Summary:Winner of the Gold Award, 2011 Past Presidents' Book Competition, Association of Borderlands StudiesThis 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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780748640218
9783110780468
DOI:10.1515/9780748640218
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Nick Vaughan-Williams.