Toward a New Art of Border Crossing

Toward a New Art of Border Crossing

by Ananta Kumar GiriArnab Roy Chowdhury and David Blake Willis
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/11/2024

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Boundaries, borders and margins are related concepts and realities, and each of these can be conceptualized and organized in closed or open ways—with degrees of closure or openness. The logics of stasis and closure, as well as cults of exclusivist and exclusionary sovereignty, are reflected and embodied in the closed xenophobic conceptualization and organization of boundaries, borders and margins. But, an open conceptualization of the borderlands, where mixing and hybridity take place at a rapid, even dizzying, pace, gives rise to Creolization—at the threshold of sovereignties, which can also be imagined. At present, our border zones are spaces of anxiety-ridden security arrangements, violence and death. The existing politics of boundary maintenance is wedded to a cult of sovereignty at various levels, which produces bare lives, bodies and lands. We need the new art of border-crossing to be defined by the notion of camaraderie and shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. Border zones can also be zones of meetings, communication, transcendence and festive celebration of the limits of our identities. Thus, we need a new art and politics of boundary transmutation, transformation and transcendence, in the broadest possible sense, that entails the production of spatial, scalar, somatic, cognitive, affective and spiritual transitions.

ISBN:
9781839986406
9781839986406
Category:
Sociology & anthropology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-11-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Anthem Press

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