Border politics : the limits of sovereign power /

Border politics : the limits of sovereign power /

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Author / Creator:	Vaughan-Williams, Nick.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.
Description:	ix, 190 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Boundaries. Boundaries -- Philosophy. Territory, National. Political geography. International relations. Geopolitics. Boundaries. Boundaries -- Philosophy.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7840521

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ISBN:	9780748637324 074863732X 9780748644858 0748644857
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.
Summary:	"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." -- Book jacket.

Table of Contents:

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.