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The borders within: Mobility and enclosure in the Riau Islands 1
Author(s) -
Ford Michele,
Lyons Lenore
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
asia pacific viewpoint
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.571
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8373
pISSN - 1360-7456
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2006.00312.x
Subject(s) - transnationalism , enclosure , state (computer science) , focus (optics) , economic geography , political science , sociology , political economy , gender studies , geography , law , politics , engineering , telecommunications , physics , optics , algorithm , computer science
The border studies literature makes a strong case against claims for unfettered transnationalism and ‘borderlessness’ in our ‘globalising world’. However, its focus on movement across borders means that it fails to address bordering practices that occur within the nation‐state as a result of transnational activity. In this paper, we extend Cunningham and Heyman’s concepts ‘enclosure’ and ‘mobility’ to confront the different layers of bordering (both physical and non‐physical) that have occurred in Indonesia’s Riau Islands since they became part of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle.