Category Archives: Borders

Digital Technologies and Border Control in West Africa

Posted on August 12, 2013 by bjmuller76

Digital Technologies and Border Control in West Africa Great contribution on criticalsecurity.ca about technology and border control in Africa by Philippe M. Frowd.

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Spaces of constructed (in)visibility

Posted on May 22, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Further to my previous posts on air strikes in Pakistan here and here, the International Crisis Group today published a new report, Drones: Myths and Reality in Pakistan. From ICG’s media release: ‘The report’s major findings…

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Border choreography, bare bodies, and penal states

Posted on May 3, 2013 by bjmuller76
Posted in Art, Biopolitics, Borderlands, Borders, European Union, Geography, Homo Sacer, Immigration, Neoliberalism | Leave a comment

Video abstract – Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola talks about ‘Neoliberalizing Border Management in Finland and Schengen’

Posted on May 2, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
“…contemporary performances of border enforcement and security cannot be understood as distinct from the process of neoliberalization.” So argues University of Oulu geographer Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola in her forthcoming Antipode paper ‘Neoliberalizing Border Management in Finland…

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Homing in

Posted on April 29, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’m finally home from Europe – a strange sentence, I think, since I always feel so much at home when I return to Europe.  I spent the last week in the Czech Republic, where I…

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ABS Meeting

Posted on April 14, 2013 by bjmuller76

I just returned from the Association for Borderlands Studies annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. Part of the Western Social Science Association meeting, the ABS meeting is always interesting. Reasonably interdisciplinary, methodologically open-minded and intellectual generous, the meeting tends to be … Continue reading →

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Mobility and Politics – New Series

Posted on April 8, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on critical logistics:
Mobility & Politics – a new thematic series, edited by Martin Geiger, Parvati Raghuram and William Walters. Flyer MOBILITY & POLITICS A New Series from Palgrave Pivot Series Editors: Martin GEIGER, Carleton University – Parvati…

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AP Bans ‘Illegal Immigrant’: The Tricky Language of Immigration Reform

Posted on April 4, 2013 by bjmuller76

It’s nice to see that the power and politics embedded in discourse and language has begun to creep into the mainstream in the case of immigration reform. At the very least, the notion that “No One is Illegal” is now … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 31, 2013 by bjmuller76

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
International Political Sociology has just put together an open access virtual theme issue on Territorialities, Spaces, Geographies – including papers by Nisha Shah, John Agnew, Neil Brenner and me, and Nick Vaughan-Williams: This special issue presents…

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