Borderities and the Politics of Contemporary Mobile Borders

The authors look at transformations affecting border spaces, by using the concept of the 'mobile border' to examine the growing dissociation between border functions and border locations. The book bears witness to the claim that de/rebordering and de/reterritorialization processes are not equivalent. It questions them through the analysis of 'borderities,' a concept built
upon a close reading of the writings of Michel Foucault and derived from 'governmentality.' 'Borderity,' any technology of spatial or socio-spatial division, could be defined as the governmentality of territorial limits. Although initially defined as a technology of power,
borderity may also appear as a differentiated social and political quality. The contributors examine the production of mobile borders (section 1: technologies), their incarnation (section 2: biopolitics) and their complex interpretation (section 3: 'dispositifs'). By looking at how political subjects can be disabled and enabled, the proposed 'borderities' approach illuminates the question of how borders can be the site of both power and counter-power.

Anne Laure Amilhat Szary is Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and member of the Institut Universitaire de France, France. Her current research interests include the interrelations between art and culture, in and about contested places. She is a founding member of the 'antiAtlas of borders' collective, an art-science project.

Frédéric Giraut is Professor at the Université de Genève, Switzerland. He is specialized in territorial complexity and comparative spatial policies with a focus on demarcation and regionalization in developing countries and sustainable area-based development initiatives. He is currently co-leading several research projects on land governance and territorial diversity within border areas both in Europe and the Global South.

1. Borderities: The Politics Of Contemporary Mobile Borders; Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary and Frédéric Giraut
PART I: CONTROLLING MOBILITY THE NORMATIVE POWER OF BORDERITIES
2. Bordering Capabilities Versus Borders: Implications For National Borders; Saskia Sassen
3. Nations Outside Their Borders: How Extraterritorial Concessions Reinforce Sovereignty; Michael J. Strauss
4. The Politics Of Eco-Frontiers: When Environmentality Meets Borderities; Sylvain Guyot
5. The Border In The Pocket: Passport As A Boundary Object; Jouni Häkli
6. Controlling Mobility: Embodying Borders; Gabriel Popescu
PART II: BIOPOLITICS. INCARNATING THE MOBILE BORDER
7. Mobile And Fatal: The EU Borders; Nicolas Lambert and Olivier Clochard
8. Mobile Euro/African Borderscapes: Migrant Communities And Shifting Urban Margins; Chiara Brambilla
9. Ethnographic Notes On 'Camp' – Centrifugality And Liminality On The Rainforest Frontier; Thomas Hendricks
10. Smuggling: Power Networks, Moral Geographies And Norm Enforcement At Work At Southern Cone Borders; Adriana Dorfman
PART III: DISPOSITIFS. INTERPRETING COMPLEX AND MOBILE BORDERS
11. Rethinking Borders In A Mobile World: An Alternative Model; Olivier Walther and Denis Retaillé
12. Mapping Mobile Borders. Critical Cartographies Of Borders Based On Migration Experiences.; Sarah Mekdjian
13. Tangier, Mobile City: Re-Making Borders In The Straits Of Gibraltar; Luiza Bialasiewicz
14. Territorial And Non-Territorial: The Mobile Borders Of Migration Controls; Paolo Cuttitta
Epilogue
15. Alternative Ways Of Mapping The Wound Or Symbolic Borderities; Ariane Littman