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Borders

• Society and Sociology in the New Millennium
  Lecture 16
• Dr. Chris Rumford

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Introduction

• Why borders?
• Need to go beyond assumptions of borderless
  world
• Heightened interest in the role of borders in
  post 9/11 world
• Current focus on networks and mobility
• Spatial turn and new spatiality of politics

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Old borders come down, new ones go up

• London
• congestion charging zone
• rings of steel
• exclusion zones

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Open borders versus securitized borders

• In Europe borders proliferate but for many
  Europeans they are easier to cross
• At same time borders are increasingly subject to
  surveillance and policing
• Open borders or securitized borders?

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The mobility of borders

• Britain moving its borders across the Channel
• UK borders extend to the heart of Belgium

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Diffusion of borders

• According to Balibar (1998), borders are not only
  to be found at the territorial edges of a polity
• They are increasingly diffused throughout society
• Border control takes place at different points in
  society airports, motorways, railway stations

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Who borders?

• Appropriation of borders by non-state actors
• Social movements No one is illegal
• Shift in relationship between state and society

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Concluding comments

• Cosmopolitanism constant crossing of borders
• A cosmopolitan lives in and across borders
• inner mobility and elective communities
• Beyond open vrs closed borders

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Bibliography

• Balibar, E. 1998 The borders of Europe in
  Cheah, P. and Robbins, B. (eds) Cosmopolitics
  Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation.
  (Minnesoto University Press)
• Beck, U. 2002 The cosmopolitan society and its
  enemies Theory, Culture Society Vol. 19(1-2)
• Rumford, C. 2006 Theorizing borders European
  Journal of Social Theory Vol. 9(2)
• No One Is Illegal http//antimedia.net/nooneisil
  legal/