Thomas Nail: Theory of the Border

Cover: 9780190618650 | Theory of the Border | Thomas Nail | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2016

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Beschreibung

Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial drones that patrol the immense expanse of our domestic and international airspace, we are defined by borders. They can no longer simply be understood as the geographical divisions between nation-states. Today, their form and function has become too complex, too hybrid. What we need now is a theory of the border that can make sense of this hybridity across multiple domains of social life.

Rather than viewing borders as the result or outcome of pre-established social entities like states, Thomas Nail reinterprets social history from the perspective of the continual and constitutive movement of the borders that organize and divide society in the first place. Societies and states are the products of bordering, Nail argues, not the other way around. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework "kinopolitics" to several major historical border regimes (fences, walls, cells, and checkpoints), Theory of the Border pioneers a new methodology of "critical limology," that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics.

Über den Autor

Thomas Nail is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver, USA.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Moving Borders

Part I: Theory of the Border

Chapter 1: Border Kinopower

Part II: Historical Limology

Chapter 2: The Fence

Chapter 3: The Wall

Chapter 4: The Cell

Chapter 5: The Checkpoint I

Chapter 6: The Checkpoint II

Part III: Contemporary Borders: U.S.-Mexico

Chapter 7: The U.S.-Mexico Fence

Chapter 8: The U.S.-Mexico Wall

Chapter 9: The U.S.-Mexico Cell

Chapter 10: The U.S.-Mexico Checkpoint

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190618650
ISBN-10:	0190618655
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nail, Thomas
Hersteller:	OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Thomas Nail
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.08.2016
Gewicht:	0,494 kg