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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/17/2015 04:49 PM, J.N. wrote:<br>
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<h1 id="article_title">Border Country</h1>
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<h3 id="book_main">Étienne Balibar, <span id="book_title">Politics
and the Other Scene</span></h3>
<h4 id="book_details">Verso, 192pp, £8.99, ISBN 9781844677856</h4>
<h2 id="article_author">reviewed by Marc Farrant</h2>
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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."<br>
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<aside id="article_author_bio"> <span id="article_author_name">Marc
Farrant</span> is a senior editor at <i>Review 31</i>. He is
currently based in Dusseldorf. </aside>
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