Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places

Cobarrubias, Sebastian ; Novak, Paolo

Resumen: Over the past twenty years, research into border externalisation has developed a rich spatial vocabulary to understand these bordering practices as well as critical analyses that challenge the often North-centric views towards externalisation. In this Special Issue, we emphasise that a place-based gaze can lend new mileage to border externalisation research. We emphasise that the place has been under-theorised and under examined in its relation to border externalisation. Existing work often has an implicit framing that understands externalisation as part of a migrant vs. border dialectic, or as part of geopolitical relations between states. By focusing on place, we argue that border externalisation: generates new contexts by connecting previously disparate sites into a border continuum; is place dependent, as its different forms are contingent on situated dynamics; and is place transformative, the border changes the social dynamics of the places where it is implemented.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2024.2409857

Año: 2025

Publicado en: Geopolitics 30, 1 (2025), 1-18
ISSN: 1465-0045

Tipo y forma: Artículo (Versión definitiva)