The political materialities of borders New theoretical directions [Hardcover]

The political materialities of borders aims to bring questions of materiality to bear specifically on the study of borders. In doing this, the contributors have chosen an approach that does not presume the material aspect of borders but rather explores the ways in which any such materiality comes into being. Through ethnographic and philosophical explorations of the ontology of borders from the perspective of materiality, this volume seeks to throw light on the interaction between the materiality of state borders and the non-material aspects of state-making. This enables, it is shown, a new understanding of borders as productive of the politics of materiality, on which both the state project rests, including in its multifarious forms in the post-nation-state era.
Preface

1. Introduction: theorising material / nonmaterial mediations on the border - Olga Demetriou and Rozita Dimova

2. Materiality, imbrication, and the longue dur?e of Greco-Turkish borders - Olga Demetriou

3. Memory as border work: the 2008 ItalyLibya friendship treaty and the reassembling of fortress Europe - Chiara De Cesari

4. Ontologies of borders: the difference of Deleuze and Derrida - Tuija Pulkkinen

5. Lines, traces and tidemarks: further reflections on forms of border - Sarah Green

6. Materialising the border-as-line in Sarajevo - Stef Jansen

7. Borders as ghosts - Eleni Myrivili

8. Materialities of displacement: Borders in contemporary Macedonia - Rozita Dimova

Olga Demetriouis a Social Anthropologist based at the Cyprus Centre of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Rozita Dimovais a Cultural Anthropologist and Associate Professor at the Department of Language and Cultures, Slavonic and East European Studies, Ghent University