Monumentalising the Border: Bordering Through Connectivity

Cooper, Anthony; Rumford, Chris

doi:10.1080/17450101.2012.747761

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“…Other accounts of borders have emphasized the transformative and creative potential of such spaces as mechanisms of connectivity and encounter (e.g. Juffer, 2006; Hingley, 2010: 240; Parry, 2010; Hingley & Hartis, 2011: 82–83; Cooper & Rumford, 2013: 107); this may partly serve to counter the creation of increasingly impermeable boundaries.…”

Section: Bordering Migration and The Values Of Roman Frontiersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These cultural and heritage practices are perhaps most fully developed on Hadrian's Wall, where the initiative ‘Illuminating Hadrian's Wall’ in 2009 brought people together from across the UK and beyond to light beacons along the entire length of the monument at sunset (Hingley, 2012: 6–7, 332). Works of border studies seldom consider pre-modern borders and frontiers, but in Anthony Cooper and Chris Rumford's ‘Monumentalising the Border: Bordering through Connectivity’, the authors mention the ‘Connecting Lights’ event held on Hadrian's Wall during the Summer Olympics of 2012 which linked the 117 km of this monument with a line of pulsating two-metre diameter lighted balloons, intended to encourage people to view the Wall as a bridge rather than a barrier (Cooper & Rumford 2013: 107, 120). Cooper and Rumford (2013: 114) also argue that ‘border monuments and public art situated on or near borders are increasingly designed to celebrate cultural encounters and/or the ability of borders to connect as well as divide’.…”

Section: Bordering Migration and The Values Of Roman Frontiersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Frontiers and Mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe

Hingley

2017

Eur. j. archaeol

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This article addresses questions relating to the 'Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site' and seeks to introduce into this initiative some concepts derived from recent writings on contemporary mobilities and bordering, exploring the possibility of creating greater engagement between the two academic fields of 'border studies' and 'Roman Frontier Studies'. By examining the relationship between the Roman Frontiers initiative and the European Union's stated aims of integration and the dissolution of borders, it argues in favour of crossing intellectual borders between the study of the present and the past to promote the value of the Roman frontiers as a means of reflecting on contemporary problems facing Europe. This article considers the potential roles of Roman Frontier Studies in this debate by emphasizing frontiers as places of encounter and transformation.

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Section: Bordering Migration and The Values Of Roman Frontiersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bordering Migration and The Values Of Roman Frontiersmentioning

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Frontiers and Mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe

Hingley

2017

Eur. j. archaeol

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“…If these observations are anything to go by, only the privileged labour force of specialized professions are living their lives across national borders with relative ease and comfort (also Cooper and Rumford 2013). At the same time, an intensification of labour mobility and tourism was seen in all regions of the world toward the end of the last century (e.g.…”

Section: Politics Of Cohesionmentioning

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The Fifth Freedom and the Burden of Executive Power

Gunnarsdóttir

2016

The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology

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Abstract. Advanced ICTs and biometry in mass-surveillance and border control is integral to the securitization agenda which emerged in the early 2000s. This agenda has been particularly instrumental in cultivating migration anxieties and framing the problem of threat as an imperative to identify those who are dangerous to public safety. As well founded as that may be, this framing masks the pivotal role ICTs have in the supervision and surveillance of industries and markets. ICTs are essential to achieve all four freedoms of movement in European market integration, i.e., of goods, services, capital and persons. They are essential to EU-US trade and investment relations which are increasingly underpinned by cross-border data flows. Drawing on mobilities research, this chapter explores how the mobilities of materials, commodities, markets and labour are simultaneously constrained and facilitated in reference to the obligation in Europe to protect yet another freedom of movement, that of data. Against efforts to better protect personal data in these flows, narratives of threat and emergency call for immediate action, whereby any data that can be intercepted can also be gathered for investigative purposes on the basis of exceptional circumstance. The securitization agenda finds its practical utility here in the hands of executive powers, avoiding the legislature and the judiciary. There is no evidence that authorities catch terrorists and criminals because of advanced ICTs in data intercept. The practical utility lies in the ability to target and investigate any individual, any political opposition or exercise in citizen rights to challenge the socio-economic and moral order. Under the circumstances, the only immediate defence available is self-censorship. Publics have no meaningful way of objecting to states of exception in which illiberal practices are legitimized, and neither does the legislature and the judiciary unless the checks on executive powers are adequately reined in.

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“…How do borders connect as well as divide? (see also Cooper and Rumford 2013) This 'multiperspectival' border studies (Rumford 2012, 897) focuses on borderwork, which is designed to capture and frame multiple and localised border practices involving nonstate actors in non-traditional places: gated communities, respects zones, communities of CCTV watching citizens, etc (Rumford 2008). This is not to eradicate the importance of the state-to exclude history in O'Dowd's (2010) terms-but rather to argue that the state is becoming only one, albeit important, borderworker of many.…”

Section: Border Studiesmentioning

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Where Are Europe’s New Borders? Ontology, Methodology and Framing

Cooper

2015

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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What do we refer to when we talk about European borders? What, for that matter, do we mean when we talk about borders more generally? Asking the question 'where are Europe's new borders' orients researchers to consider what important European bordering currently looks like, where these often contradictory bordering processes can be found and the implications of this bordering on the way we think about Europe more generally and its place in the world. At the same time, looking for new borders necessarily facilitates fresh insights into bordering more generally, particularly in relation to their symbolic importance/function/meaning, how they continually transform and how they are maintained in novel and less obvious or immediate ways. This introduction, and indeed special issue, frames and advances the general debate by staking a claim for the need to question the established importance of some European borders over others. To do this, we must continually offer multiple frames of reference upon which to understand and deconstruct Europe and European bordering (a broad approach reflected more specifically by the individual contributions).

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Monumentalising the Border: Bordering Through Connectivity

Cited by 33 publications

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Frontiers and Mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe

Frontiers and Mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe

The Fifth Freedom and the Burden of Executive Power

Where Are Europe’s New Borders? Ontology, Methodology and Framing

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