GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2169879
Umut Ozguc, A. Burridge
{"title":"More-Than-Human Borders: A New Research Agenda for Posthuman Conversations in Border Studies","authors":"Umut Ozguc, A. Burridge","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2169879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2169879","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite a growing interest in posthuman theory within political geography over the last two decades, the sub-disciplinary focus of critical border studies has seen a slower engagement with more-than-human entanglements. In this introductory paper to the special section, we ask whether the militarisation of borderlands, increasing surveillance of mobility, growing violence against refugees and asylum seekers, pandemic bordering, and mass displacement can be fully grasped through a singular focus upon the agency of the human subject. In addressing these questions, we challenge what we see as an anthropocentric preoccupation of existing scholarship in critical border studies and argue that the border is a constantly moving space that is created, maintained and/or dismantled by the entanglements of human and non-human lives and things. Our aim in bringing posthuman conversations into critical border studies is to explore different methods and questions that challenge binary constructions in our understandings of borders. In our response to these challenges, within this opening piece, we map three areas of debate: rethinking the heterogeneity of more-than-human borders; studying the agency of ‘things’ of the border; and finally, considering dehumanising practices of border politics. We suggest that the scholarship on more-than-human borders can be seen as a ‘minor literature’ that calls for a genuine realisation of forgotten and suppressed languages, voices, and knowledges.","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"28 1","pages":"471 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49068263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2159385
Corey Robinson
{"title":"Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling","authors":"Corey Robinson","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2159385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2159385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45588096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2165441
Petra Alderman, K. Eggeling
{"title":"Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes","authors":"Petra Alderman, K. Eggeling","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2165441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2165441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43053804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-07DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2160710
Dorota Golańska
{"title":"Technologies of Drawing (On) a Desert: Reading Land Art and Colonial Politics in the Naqab/Negev Diffractively","authors":"Dorota Golańska","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2160710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2160710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45404218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2151901
J. L. Suárez de Vivero, J. C. Rodríguez-Mateos
{"title":"Facing a New Ocean Decade: Geopolitical Change and Challenges in Ocean Governance","authors":"J. L. Suárez de Vivero, J. C. Rodríguez-Mateos","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2151901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43351514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2151903
Shpend Kursani
{"title":"Costs of International Recognition: Palestine’s and Kosovo’s Struggle with Negotiated Statehood","authors":"Shpend Kursani","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2151903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42402544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2129732
Ilker Ataç, Helge Schwiertz, M. Jørgensen, Robin Vandevoordt, Sophie Hinger, Susanne Spindler
{"title":"Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration","authors":"Ilker Ataç, Helge Schwiertz, M. Jørgensen, Robin Vandevoordt, Sophie Hinger, Susanne Spindler","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2129732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2129732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44428647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2151904
Filippo Dionigi
{"title":"Displacement as Heterotopic Space: The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan","authors":"Filippo Dionigi","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2151904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48439592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902
A. Baur
{"title":"European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control","authors":"A. Baur","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2151902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48920537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
GeopoliticsPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2047468
Aaron Martin, Gargi Sharma, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Linnet Taylor, Boudewijn van Eerd, Sean Martin McDonald, Massimo Marelli, Margie Cheesman, Stephan Scheel, Huub Dijstelbloem
{"title":"Digitisation and Sovereignty in Humanitarian Space: Technologies, Territories and Tensions.","authors":"Aaron Martin, Gargi Sharma, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Linnet Taylor, Boudewijn van Eerd, Sean Martin McDonald, Massimo Marelli, Margie Cheesman, Stephan Scheel, Huub Dijstelbloem","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2047468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2047468","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Debates are ongoing on the limits of - and possibilities for - sovereignty in the digital era. While most observers spotlight the implications of the Internet, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence/machine learning and advanced data analytics for the sovereignty of nation states, a critical yet under examined question concerns what digital innovations mean for authority, power and control in the humanitarian sphere in which different rules, values and expectations are thought to apply. This forum brings together practitioners and scholars to explore both conceptually and empirically how digitisation and datafication in aid are (re)shaping notions of sovereign power in humanitarian space. The forum's contributors challenge established understandings of sovereignty in new forms of digital humanitarian action. Among other focus areas, the forum draws attention to how cyber dependencies threaten international humanitarian organisations' purported digital sovereignty. It also contests the potential of technologies like blockchain to revolutionise notions of sovereignty in humanitarian assistance and hypothesises about the ineluctable parasitic qualities of humanitarian technology. The forum concludes by proposing that digital technologies deployed in migration contexts might be understood as 'sovereignty experiments'. We invite readers from scholarly, policy and practitioner communities alike to engage closely with these critical perspectives on digitisation and sovereignty in humanitarian space.</p>","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"28 3","pages":"1362-1397"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ed/c9/FGEO_28_2047468.PMC10153061.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9430799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}