Borders, Infrastructures and Violence (Panel 2)

Abstract

Borders are central to the constitution of statehood, even if they increasingly seem to disperse within and across state territories and are often managed by none-state actors. They attest to a governments’ ability to filter and police circulation (of people, goods, services, information) and thus to insert distinctions, between, for example, good and bad circulation or between insiders (citizens) and outsiders (foreigners). Border infrastructures shape how these forms of differentiation are executed. Borderlands are, therefore, central to the formation, execution and contestation of (state) power. They also constitute important hubs for the generation of knowledge. Borderlands and border infrastructures – walls, fences, land, sea and airports, laws, visa and customs systems – and the processes and practices they engender are often highly contested. In this panel, we propose to explore the violent manifestations of these contentions. We invite papers that explore the relations between border(land)s, infrastructures and violence, discuss the ways borderlands and border infrastructures are constituted and relate to statehood and sovereignty. Papers can examine these relations theoretically and empirically.

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Materialising the International: Reifying India-Pakistan Relations in Infrastructures at the Attari-Wagah Border Crossing Point	View Paper Details
Conflict, Crime, and Cross-Border Migration: The Effects of Restrictive Border Regimes on People-Centred and National Security in Latin America	View Paper Details
South Lebanon: a violent border or a weak state?	View Paper Details
Foresight Technology Methods in Border Security Building	View Paper Details