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Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mezzadra, Sandro.
- Series:
- a Social Text book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borderlands.
- Boundaries.
- Local Subjects:
- Borderlands.
- Boundaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (381 p.)
- Other Title:
- A Social Text Book Ser.
- a Social Text book
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this major work of political theory, the use of the border as method enables new perspectives on transformations of the nation-state and political concepts such as citizenship and sovereignty.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Proliferation of Borders; The World Seen from a Cab; What Is a Border?; In the Borderscape; Border as Method; Containing Labor Power; Chapter 2: Fabrica Mundi; Shadow Lines; The Primitive Accumulation of Modern Cartography; The Pattern of the World; The Trained Gorilla and the Holy Cow; Continential Drift; Chapter 3: Frontiers of Capital; The Heterogeneity of Global Space; Modern Capitalism and the World Market; Genealogy of the International Division of Labor; Transitions of Capitalism; The Multiplication of Labor
- Chapter 4: Figures of LaborWorkers of the World; Taking Care; Financial Traders; Chains That Bind, Chains That Link; Whose Unity?; Chapter 5: In the Space of Temporal Borders; From the Tea Shop to the Bench; The Race for Talent; Detention and Deportability; Internal Borders; Differential Inclusion; Chapter 6: The Sovereign Machine of Governmentality; Tough but Humane; Governing the Border; Regime Conflicts; Assemblages of Power; The Sovereign Machine of Governmentality; Chapter 7: Zones, Corridors, and Postdevelopmental Geographies; Corridors and Channels; In the Frame; Last Train Home?
- Between Cognizant and InfinityBorderzones; Chapter 8: Producing Subjects; Stakhanov and Us; The Subjects of Politics; Labor/Power; Border Struggles; The Labor of Translation; Chapter 9: Translating the Common; Whose Method?; Articulation, Translation, Universality; Bordering the Common; Cooperative, Community Economies, and Spaces of the Common; In Struggle for the Common; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822377542
- 0822377543
- OCLC:
- 1156839488
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