Author (Person) | Aubry, Lola |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Series Title | Journal of Borderlands Studies |
Series Details | Volume 39, Number 3, Pages 455-474 |
Publication Date | 2024 |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Abstract:Even though it is now established within the field of border studies that bordering experiences vary depending on who you are, a less investigated problem has to do with how differentially border-ed/ing realities and knowledges relate, emerge, and matter. Therefore, this paper unpacks, in dialog with feminist sciences studies, what Sarah Green calls “borderness dynamics” as a cosmos-politics, a complicating ecology of situated knowledges on and of border(ing)s. The argument builds on an ethnographic investigation of the processes through which initially “borderless” White European volunteers from pro-refugee initiatives in Paris come to sense and know borders in the city as they encounter other border-ed/ing versions of Paris through their practices. The paper demonstrates how these shifts in volunteers’ border sensibilities and knowledges matter ethically and ontologically. The shifts in their (not)knowing/sensing, animated by processes of complication, multiplication, and texturization, contribute to re-shaping what comes to matter as border, as well as to de-re-territorializing the city and its inhabitants as a borderland and as borderlanders. Attending to borderness dynamics enables one to map encounter-induced positionality changes that contribute to “rescaping” at once borders, borderlands, and borderlanders. |
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Source Link | Link to Main Source https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2129426 |
Subject Categories | Values and Beliefs |
Subject Tags | Asylum | Refugees |
Keywords | Ethics | Ethical Matters |
Countries / Regions | France |