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- Classical borderlands
- Internal borderlands
- Frontier states/global borderlands
A History of Violence
• Violent legacies and
borderlands as
militarized zones
• How states deal with
unruly borderlands –
and how
borderlanders deal
with states
• The ‘performance’ of
security at borders
• Borderlands as violent
‘neuralgia points’
‘Extruding blood’: borders, belonging
and purification
• States, citizenship and the margin
• Belonging, performance and
purification
• Borders contested, unsettled and
transgressed – borders as hybrid
zones
• Borders as containers of nationalism
and conduits of transnationalism
The economics of borderlands
• Spaces of avoidance and
incorporation – comparative
advantage in illegality
• Fencing wealth, exploiting difference
• Frontier booms towns and arbitrage
economies
• Frontier development - settlement,
enclosure, primitive accumulation
• Crime, wars and borderlands
economies
POLITICAL
ECONOMY
power
material
interests
institutions
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BORDERLA
BORDERLAND
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PERSPECTIVE
PERSPECTI
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POLITICAL
GEOGRAPHY HISTORY
space time
place temporality
territory
Concluding thoughts
• War, peace and space – struggles over competing
spatial logics, mental maps and boundary
checkpoints