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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777941403321

Autore

Vaughan-Williams Nick

Titolo

Border politics : the limits of sovereign power / / Nick Vaughan-Williams [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-7486-5274-4

1-282-13660-7

9786612136603

0-7486-4021-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.12

Soggetti

Boundaries

Boundaries - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Borders are not what or where they are suposed to be; Chapter 2: The study of borders in global politics; Chapter 3: Violence, territory and the borders of juridical-political order; Chapter 4: The generalised biopolitical border; Chapter 5: Alternative border imaginaries; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of International Relations. It turns from the current debate regarding the presence or absence of borders to consider the fundamental change that is occurring in the concept of the border in contemporary political life.