Border politics : the limits of sovereign power /

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Author / Creator:Vaughan-Williams, Nick.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196785
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ISBN:9780748640218
0748640215
1282136607
9781282136601
9780748637324
074863732X
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-184) and index.
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Summary:Winner of the Gold Award, 2011 Past Presidents' Book Competition, Association of Borderlands Studies This 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.
Other form:Print version: Vaughan-Williams, Nick. Border politics. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748637324 074863732X