Sanctuary Shorts is a conceptual conversation with distinguished scholars whose work unravels the logics of racial capitalism, thereby enacting radically different humanisms and liberatory worlds of political being. Filmed in the time of global pandemic, these conversations are meant to bring us together as communities of inquiry. Meant to circulat...
Este artículo analiza los modos de relación que los grupos indígenas de las zonas fronterizas de Florida occidental y Luisiana entablaron con los enclaves españoles del curso inferior del río Misisipi durante las tres últimas décadas del siglo XVIII. Para ello revisamos el uso que se hizo del regalo como instrumento diplomático y de control, de com...
This dissertation takes a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses the field of geography to re-examine broader socio-political events in the nineteenth-century Mediterranean. Borderland studies, islands studies, and more recently, ecotones have inspired interest in the mediating role of islands in the transmission of goods, people, and ideas. B...
This article discusses the emergence of a field of studies on cross-border agreements in Latin America as a positive feature in favor of the construction of a critical theory of Latin American borders, but at the same time weighed down in heuristic terms by its theoretical and methodological dependences to the mainstream of European and North Ameri...
Dans un contexte de controverses politiques autour des questions de frontière et de migrations ces trente dernières années aux États-Unis, l’État fédéral n’a eu de cesse de renforcer les mesures de sécurité dans les villes des borderlands. Ce dernier met en place des barrières, déploie des agents fédéraux et met en place des outils technologiques d...
Published in Trends in organized crime
Based on the conceptualizations of organized crime as both an enterprise and a form of governance, borderland as a spatial category, and borders as institutions, this paper looks at the politics of bordering practices by organized crime in the Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands. It posits that contrary to the common assumptions about transnational or...
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Frontier Tibet addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of integration and debated about where the border between China and Tibet should be. It also ponders the ways in wh...
