ABSTRACT
Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by particular people than others. This book investigates the diffusion of bordering narratives and practices by asking ’who borders and how?’ Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range of scales and places. This edited volume includes contributions from major international scholars in the field of border studies and allied disciplines who analyze where and why border work is done. By combining a new theorization of border work beyond the state with rich empirical case studies, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to the study of borders and the state in the era of globalization.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|51 pages
Theorizing the Border in Everyday Life
chapter 3|32 pages
Policing Borders, Policing Bodies
part II|99 pages
Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Near the Border
chapter 4|26 pages
Locating the Border in Boundary Bay
chapter 5|24 pages
A Basis for Bordering
chapter 7|28 pages
Crossing Lines, Crossed by Lines
part III|91 pages
Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Away from the Border