The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularisation of Borders

Perkins, Chris; Rumford, Chris

doi:10.1080/13600826.2013.790784

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“…As a an alternative methodological template, Walters (2011) proposes to direct empirical attention to what he terms "technological work" (page 58)the mundane day-to-day activities and performances that "go into making technology function" (page 59) or that might compromise their outcomes (page 54). As such, articulating a similar criticism as Perkins and Rumford (2013) in their appeal for a vernacularisation of border research, also Walters (2011) asserts the significance of e veryday practices for processes of bordering, but extends the scope into a highly technologized area of surveillance, management, and control.…”

Section: From Ontologies To Ontic Operations: Practices Of Iborderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Presently, borders have lost much of an earlier dependence on territoriality and physical impenetrability (Parker and Vaughan-Williams, 2009;Perkins and Rumford, 2013). Contemporary technologies afford new dynamics of transnationalization, privatization, and digitization (Bauman et.al., page 126) that rearticulate borders and blur distinctions between state and business, private and public, inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion.…”

Section: Borders and Technologies: Theoretical Framesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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iBorder: Bringing STS into Border Research

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2015

Proceedings of ISIS Summit Vienna 2015—The Information Society at the Crossroads

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Recently, the role of technology in processes of dislocating and dispersing borders has attracted increasing attention. Vukov and Sheller (2013, page 225), for instance, note a transformation of borders toward "sophisticated, flexible, and mobile devices of tracking, filtration, and exclusion". According to the authors, "new technologies of bio-informatic border security and remote surveillance" (page 226) lead to a paradigm shift that demands "sustained attention to the technocultural and communicative infrastructure of these bordering devices and technologies" (page 227). As such, a vernacularisation of border studies as the one called for by Perkins and Rumford

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Section: From Ontologies To Ontic Operations: Practices Of Iborderingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Borders and Technologies: Theoretical Framesmentioning

confidence: 99%

iBorder: Bringing STS into Border Research

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2015

Proceedings of ISIS Summit Vienna 2015—The Information Society at the Crossroads

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“…Such a widened perspective enables a conception of the border as a zone that facilitates both encounters and division (Rovisco 2010), and as a potential resource providing orientation in ambiguous socio-cultural terrains (Perkins and Rumford 2013). Van Houtum and Naerssen (2002) introduce the term bordering to highlight performative and inherently productive aspects of regimes and practices of in/exclusion, while Perkins and Rumford (2013) refer to a "vernacularisation" (270) of borders and border research to account for the increased significance of day-to-day practices.…”

Section: Border Studies Beyond the Statementioning

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“…Van Houtum and Naerssen (2002) introduce the term bordering to highlight performative and inherently productive aspects of regimes and practices of in/exclusion, while Perkins and Rumford (2013) refer to a "vernacularisation" (270) of borders and border research to account for the increased significance of day-to-day practices. Their approach makes borders conceivable as not only a limiting frame, but also a resource that provides orientation in ambiguous terrains.…”

Section: Border Studies Beyond the Statementioning

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Art Across Borders: Dislocating Artistic and Curatorial Practices in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region

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2015

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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The present article investigates the role of artworks in processes of bordering in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. Drawing upon a neo-formalist framework, it firstly analyses works that were exhibited during the X-Border Art Biennial to identify disruptive potentials vested in the artistic pieces' formal properties, before it, secondly, addresses potential performance effects of these works and of the curatorial decision to distribute exhibition space across three cities in Sweden, Finland, and Russia. I argue for an ambivalent role of artistic and curatorial practices that have the inherent potential to articulate opposition and de-familiarize established frames for perception and cognition, and at the same time inhere the capacity to reinforce regimes of exclusion and facilitate processes of commodification and capitalization.

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“…The focus on borders' processual character and multiple determination has been accompanied by a parallel reconsideration of the actors of border-making, "disaggregat(ing) the state and the border in order to conceptualize the multiple actors and sites of borderwork" 12 . Chris Rumford, in particular, has made the argument for a "vernacularisation of border studies" 13 , considering how alongside state actors and political and cultural elites, ordinary citizens are increasingly engaged with the business of demarcating and policing borders. Ordinary citizens are crucial "actors in the constitution of borders, rarely bringing them into being or shifting their location, perhaps (although this is certainly not impossible), but active nevertheless in the processes of legitimisation and fixing of borders" 14 .…”

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Nested Peripheralisation

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2017

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article is part of the special section titled Recursive Easts, Shifting Peripheries, guest edited by Pamela Ballinger. The break-up of the Cold War order, the eastwards expansion of the European Union into former socialist countries and the more recent economic and humanitarian crises have led to the emergence of new symbolic borders and the reconfiguration of spatial hierarchies within Europe. The article shows how metageographical categories of “Europe,” “East,” and “West” and underlying classificatory logics are not only circulated in geopolitical discourses but can be appropriated by ordinary citizens in their everyday life. Using the Russian–Estonian border as a case study, the article examines the recursive negotiations of Europe’s East–West border by people living in the borderland as a response to the geopolitical changes. It highlights three border narratives: the narrative of becoming peripheral/Eastern, the narrative of becoming European, and a narrative contesting the East–West hierarchy by associating the East and one’s own identity with positive things. On both sides of the border, the status as a new periphery does not create unity across the border but rather results in multiple and competing border narratives, in which “Europe” functions as an unstable referent in relation to which one’s position is marked out. This “nested peripheralisation” at Europe’s new margins reflects power relations and uneven local experiences of transformation.

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The Politics of (Un)fixity and the Vernacularisation of Borders

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iBorder: Bringing STS into Border Research

iBorder: Bringing STS into Border Research

Art Across Borders: Dislocating Artistic and Curatorial Practices in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region

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