Border as method, or, the multiplication of labor / Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mezzadra, Sandro.

Contributor:

Neilson, Brett

Series:

Social text books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries.

Borderlands.

Physical Description:

xiv, 365 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [ 2013]

Summary:

Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various geographical scales, illustrating their theoretical arguments with illuminating case studies drawn from Europe, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, and elsewhere. Mezzadra and Neilson approach the border not only as a research object but also as an epistemic framework. Their use of the border as method enables new perspectives on the crisis and transformations of the nation-state, as well as powerful reassessments of political concepts such as citizenship and sovereignty. Book jacket.

Contents:

The proliferation of borders

Fabrica mundi

Frontiers of capital

Figures of labor

In the space of temporal borders

The sovereign machine of governmentality

Zones, corridors, and postdevelopmental geographies

Producing subjects

Translating the common.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-346) and index.

ISBN:

9780822354871

082235487X

9780822355038

0822355035

OCLC:

816512646