Contested Borders
As the world grows more interconnected and risks more complex, states’ sovereign powers and domains of autonomous actions are increasingly reduced. This means that borders become less significant as boundaries that delimit a state’s authority and powers.
However, at the same time, we witness an increase of border walls, an expansion of highly technologized border zones, and record numbers of border deaths. What are the political and legal structures that enable the creation and operation of highly technologized border zones? What are the political and legal challenges to the Schengen area as a space of free movement? Which scientific or cultural ideas and narratives sustain and shape particular conceptions of borders? And how are borders inscribed into the body and determine collective belonging and visions of the self?
These are some of the key questions that researchers in this group address.
Researchers
- Marta Morvillo
- Stefan Salomon
- Luiza Bialasiewicz
- Theresa Kuhn
- Lisa Herbig
Affiliated researcher
- Pola Cebulak (Vrije University Amsterdam)