[D66] Border Country

[J.N.]

http://review31.co.uk/article/view/47/border-country

On 09/17/2015 04:49 PM, J.N. wrote:
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>   Border Country
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>       Étienne Balibar, Politics and the Other Scene
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>         Verso, 192pp, £8.99, ISBN 9781844677856
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>     reviewed by Marc Farrant
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> "The discussion is far wider-ranging than a mere discussion of the
> physical, or rather imaginary, manifestations of the borders that
> separate the nation states of Europe (although the crisis of the
> nation-state lies at the heart of Balibar's thinking of the
> potentialities of a trans-national or globalised citizenship). Indeed,
> in 'The Borders of Europe' Balibar interestingly highlights the
> proliferation of borders in our supposedly borderless European
> society. No longer are borders imaginary constructs that coincide
> along state lines, but topographically spontaneous entities that are
> manifested in security and health check zones all over the major
> social spaces of Europe. Fundamentally the question of the border is
> also the question of the institution. For Balibar, the notion of the
> border is intrinsically tied to the historical construction of
> institutions, as those entities by which our democratic freedom is
> guaranteed but also demarcated and regulated. He notes: ‘borders have
> been the anti-democratic condition for that partial, limited democracy
> which some nation-states enjoyed for a certain period’. Thus, the
> thinking of the radicalisation of democracy is precisely to
> deconstruct this institutionalisation of the border."
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> Marc Farrant is a senior editor at /Review 31/. He is currently based
> in Dusseldorf.
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