Border rules : an abolitionist refusal

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Border rules : an abolitionist refusal

Kanishka Chowdhury

(Politics of citizenship and migration)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2023

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This book examines both border policies and oppositional narratives of "the border," 2011-2021, demonstrating that the term designates not merely a line of territorial control but also a set of social relations shaped by persistent, racially differentiated colonial structures and, more recently, by neoliberal modes of accumulation. These relations are shown to determine access to wealth and/or resources and to enable the management of labor, the extraction of surplus, and the accumulation of capital. Discussion in the book is informed by the history of these policies and by the critical literature on borders. Various cultural texts focusing on two border zones-the US-Mexico and the EU-Southern Mediterranean-are analyzed: specifically, two novels, two films, and two murals examined in conjunction with a music video. A path to a borderless future is suggested: an abolitionist refusal of border rules with an insistence on the necessity of abolition.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Border Rules and Oppositional CurrentsChapter 2: Border Rules: Imperialism, Race, and the Politics of DevelopmentChapter 3: Theorizing Borders in the Shadow of Imperial ViolenceChapter 4: Theorizing Borders in the Shadow of Imperial ViolenceChapter 5: Documenting the Migrant Journey in Ai Weiwei's Human Flow and Diego Quemada-Di ez's La Jaula de OroChapter 6: Visualizing Borders: M.I.A.'s "Borders" and Mural Art in Cuidad Juarez and El PasoChapter 7: A Borderless World: Abolition Democracy and the Politics of Refusal Abolition and Solidarities Across Borders

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