{"product_id":"borders-as-infrastructure-isbn-9780262542883","title":"Borders as Infrastructure","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn investigation of borders as moving entities that influence our notions of territory, authority, sovereignty, and jurisdiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBorders as Infrastructure\u003c\/i\u003e, Huub Dijstelbloem brings science and technology studies, as well as the philosophy of technology, to the study of borders and international human mobility. Taking Europe's borders as a point of departure, he shows how borders can transform and multiply and and how they can mark conflicts over international orders. Borders themselves are moving entities, he claims, and with them travel our notions of territory, authority, sovereignty, and jurisdiction. The philosophies of Bruno Latour and Peter Sloterdijk provide a framework for Dijstelbloem's discussion of the material and morphological nature of borders and border politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDijstelbloem offers detailed empirical investigations that focus on the so-called migrant crisis of 2014-2016 on the Greek Aegean Islands of Chios and Lesbos; the Europe surveillance system Eurosur; border patrols at sea; the rise of hotspots and \"humanitarian borders\"; the technopolitics of border control at Schiphol International Airport; and the countersurveillance by NGOs, activists, and artists who investigate infrastructural border violence. Throughout, Dijstelbloem explores technologies used in border control, including cameras, databases, fingerprinting, visual representations, fences, walls, and monitoring instruments. Borders can turn places, routes, and territories into \"zones of death.\" Dijstelbloem concludes that Europe's current relationship with borders renders borders--and Europe itself--an \"extreme infrastructure\" obsessed with boundaries and limits.Preface\u003cbr\u003e1 The Border as a Vehicle\u003cbr\u003e2 The Rise of Europe's Border Infrastructures\u003cbr\u003e3 The Shape of Technopolitics\u003cbr\u003e4 Detection, Detention, and Design at the Airport\u003cbr\u003e5 Surveilling Landscapes and Seascapes \u003cbr\u003e6 The Portable Provision of Care and Control\u003cbr\u003e7 Infrastructural Investigations\u003cbr\u003e8 Extreme Infrastructure\u003cbr\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex“Infrastructure connects and so does this excellent book. Bridging the philosophical, the technical, and the political, this original work will be indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the power of bordering today.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eWilliam Walters, Professor of Political Sociology, Carleton University, Canada; author of \u003ci\u003eState Secrecy and Security\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A searing account of the deep violences of Europe's border infrastructures. From the technologies mediating contemporary migration to new regimes of vision at the border, Dijstelbloem offers a compelling interweaving of technological landscapes and migration stories.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLouise Amoore, Professor of Political Geography, Durham University, UK; author of \u003ci\u003eCloud Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Originally designed and carefully written, \u003cu\u003eBorders as Infrastructure\u003c\/u\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esucceeds in addressing contemporary transnational mobility as generative of actors, institutions, and technologies. As such, it contributes to a pressing collective endeavor.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAnnalisa Pelizza, Full Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of Bologna; PI of the Processing Citizenship research program\u003c\/b\u003eHuub Dijstelbloem is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Politics at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303612076261,"sku":"NP9780262542883","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262542883.jpg?v=1767722957","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/borders-as-infrastructure-isbn-9780262542883","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}