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This book provides a new point of departure for thinking critically and creatively about international borders and the perceived need to defend them, adopting an innovative 'preferred future' methodology.
The authors critically examine a range of 'border domains' including law, citizenship, governance, morality, security, economy, culture and civil society, which provide the means and justification for contemporary border controls, and identify early signs that the dynamics of sovereignty and borders are being fundamentally transformed under conditions of neoliberal globalization. The goal is to locate potential pathways towards the preferred future of relaxed borders, and provide a foundation for a progressive politics dedicated to moving beyond mere critique of the harm and inequity of border controls and capable of envisaging a differently bordered world.
This book will be of considerable interest to students of border studies, migration, criminology, peacemaking, critical security studies and IR in general.
List of contents
Editor's Preface, Leanne Weber 1. Peace at the Border: A Thought Experiment, Leanne Weber 2. The law of the border and the borders of law: rethinking border control from the perspective of the individual, Valsamis Mitsilegas 3. The Limits of Inclusion: Globalization, Neoliberal Capitalism and State Policies of Border Control, Leonidas K. Cheliotis 4. Security and peace in the US–Mexico borderlands, Raymond Michalowski 5. Superseding citizenship, Tiziana Torresi 6. State borders, human mobility and social equality: from blueprints to pathways, Galina Cornelisse 7. Open borders and the survival of national cultures, George Vasilev 8. Moral communities across the border: the particularism of law meets the universalism of ethics, Barbara Hudson 9. Border protests: the role of civil society in transforming border control, Vanessa Barker 10. Conclusion: Prospects for peace at the border, Leanne Weber COMMENTARIES: Rethinking borders as membranes, Rainer Bauböck; Borders and borderings, Saskia Sassen; Transforming borders from below, Nancy Wonders Afterword, Leanne Weber
About the author
Leanne Weber is Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of Policing Non Citizens (2013) and co-author of Crime, Justice and Human Rights (2014, with Elaine Fishwick and Marinella Marmo) and Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier (2011, with Sharon Pickering).
Summary
This book provides a new point of departure for thinking critically and creatively about international borders and the perceived need to defend these, adopting an innovative ‘preferred future’ methodology.
