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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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1482972021-05-12T20:11:13Z Global borders : power, fragility, and ‘a kind of fiction’ (Editorial introduction) Cahill, Samara School of Humanities Humanities::Literature::English 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. Published version 2021-05-10T06:03:41Z 2021-05-10T06:03:41Z 2020 Journal Article Cahill, S. (2020). Global borders : power, fragility, and ‘a kind of fiction’ (Editorial introduction). Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment, 2(1), i-ix. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/srej.2020.2.1.1 2661-3336 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148297 10.32655/srej.2020.2.1.1 1 2 i ix en Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment © 2020 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, & the Brigham Young University Faculty Publishing Service. application/pdf |
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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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