Border Thinking and the Experiential Epistemologies of International Relations
Borders cannot be understood separate from the bodies they affect and form. The geopolitics of knowledge cannot be separated from the experience of borders.
Interview – Walter D. Mignolo
Professor Walter D. Mignolo discusses the geo- and body-political dimensions of knowledge as the energy fuelling border thinking and decoloniality.
Edited Collection – Critical Epistemologies of Global Politics
This book offers an enriched vision of borders, both analytically and politically, that not only seeks to understand but also to reshape and expand the meanings and consequences of IR.
What Will Americans, Britons, or Hungarians Do in the Name of Nationalism?
The task of people who viscerally fear and dislike nationalism is to make a positive argument on behalf of the shared gains of migration, free trade, and cosmopolitanism.
Our New Walls: The Rise of Separation Barriers in the Age of Globalization
Separation barriers might seem archaic in a “globalizing” world, but they are increasingly popular worldwide.
The Global Reconstitution of Borders: A Five-part Symposium
Borders both constitute and personify political communities, simultaneously symbolizing their cohesiveness and embodying their separateness from (and fear of) ‘others’.
Interview – Reece Jones
Reece Jones discusses the inherent violence of borders, criticizes media coverage of the migration crisis, and assesses why the EU has the worlds deadliest border.
Interview – Daniela DeBono
Daniela DeBono discusses her approach to the migration-human rights nexus, explains a cultural approach to human rights, and urges young scholars to question assumptions.
Turkey’s Borderlands, the Syrian Civil War, and the Kurds
For countries that share a long land border and overlapping populations with similar customs, ‘spillover’ is a natural sociological corollary of transnational ties.
The Eclipse of Europe: Italy, Libya, and the Surveillance of Borders
The EU lacks a common foreign policy to tackle immigration. Thus, national policies fill this gap. For this reason, political initiatives at the local level are crucial.
