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Categories, Practices and the Self – Reflections on Bordering, Ordering and Othering
Author(s) -
Vollmer Bastian A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/tesg.12458
Subject(s) - multitude , ambiguity , diversification (marketing strategy) , discipline , politics , sociology , relevance (law) , field (mathematics) , economic geography , political science , epistemology , political economy , social science , geography , law , philosophy , business , linguistics , mathematics , marketing , pure mathematics
Since the publication of the paper ‘Bordering, Ordering and Othering’ by Henk van Houtum and Ton van Naerssen (2002), there has been an increase of complexity and diversification of borders and border‐making practices while at the same time one can observe an unprecedented development of research on these phenomena from a multitude of disciplinary perspectives. By revisiting the text, I will discuss three main comments referring to bordering categories, bordering practices and bordering self in the wider field of migration. The growing ambiguity of borders is once more underlined, but more importantly, these comments flesh out some of the far‐reaching profundities as well as political powers and new relevance which borders and practices of bordering have gained.

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