Global borders : power, fragility, and ‘a kind of fiction’ (Editorial introduction)
Borders. To what extent do they determine identity? Borders may be as solid and politicized as a wall between two neighboring nations, or as enchanting as the demarcation between a cultivated garden and a wild or commons, or as permeable as the barricade of a cell membrane to a virus. Borders sign...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148297 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Borders. To what extent do they determine identity? Borders may be as solid and
politicized as a wall between two neighboring nations, or as enchanting as the
demarcation between a cultivated garden and a wild or commons, or as permeable as the barricade of a cell membrane to a virus. Borders signal sovereignty, territory, and property. But any attempt to use borders to shape the world into an orderly, comprehensible grid of identities and affiliations is premised on a fiction of containment. With the gentlest wafting of pollen from a summer breeze or a bee’s wing, the fixed categories borders inscribe can blossom into hybridities. |
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