Placing the Border in Everyday Life

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Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by particular people than others. This book investigates the diffusion of bordering narratives and practices by asking ’who borders and how?’ Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range of scales and places. This edited volume includes contributions from major international scholars in the field of border studies and allied disciplines who analyze where and why border work is done. By combining a new theorization of border work beyond the state with rich empirical case studies, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to the study of borders and the state in the era of globalization. Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Where is the Border? • Corey Johnson and Reece Jones Section I: Theorizing the Border in Everyday Life 2 The Vernacularization of Borders • Anthony Cooper, Chris Perkins, and Chris Rumford 3 Policing Borders, Policing Bodies: The Territorial and Biopolitical Roots of US Immigration Control • Mathew Coleman and Angela Stuesse Section II: Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Near the Border 4 Locating the Border in Boundary Bay: Non-Point Pollution, Contaminated Shellfish, and Transboundary Governance • Emma S. Norman 5 A Basis for Bordering: Land, Migration, and Inter-Tohono O’odham Distinction Along the US–Mexico Line • Kenneth D. Madsen 6 Whose Border? Border Talk and Discursive Governance of the Salween River-Border • Vanessa Lamb 7 Crossing Lines, Crossed by Lines: Everyday Practices and Local Border Traffic in Schengen Regulated Borderlands • Judith Miggelbrink Section III: Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Away from the Border 8 Symbolic Bordering and the Securitization of Identity Markers in Nigeria’s Ethno-Religiously Segregated City of Jos • Yakubu Joseph and Rainer Rothfuss 9 Border Wars: Narratives and Images of the US–Mexico Border on TV • Reece Jones 10 Latin American Borders on the Lookout: Recreating Borders through Art in the Mercosul • Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary 11 “No Place Like Home”: Boundary Traffic through the Prison Gate • Jennifer Turner 12 Conclusion • Corey Johnson Index