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OverviewEurope's Border Crisis explores current dynamics in EU border security and migration management. It argues that a crisis point has emerged because 'irregular' migrants are seen as both a security threat to the EU and also as a life threatened and in need of protection. This leads to paradoxical situations whereby humanitarian policies and practices expose 'irregular' migrants to often dehumanizing and sometimes lethal border security mechanisms. The dominant way of understanding these dynamics -- one that blames a gap between policy and practice -- fails to address the deeper issues at stake and ends up perpetuating the terms of the crisis. Drawing on conceptual resources in biopolitical theory the book offers an alternative diagnosis and sets out a new research agenda for the interdisciplinary field of critical border and migration studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nick Vaughan-Williams (Professor of International Security, Professor of International Security, University of Warwick)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 23.20cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9780198806790ISBN 10: 0198806795 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 07 September 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart 1 Borders, crises, critique 1: Europes border crisis 2: European border security and the crisis of humanitarian critique 3: Conceptual crises in critical border and migration studies 4: Key themes and a map of the study Part 2. Biopolitical borders 5: Introduction 6: European border security and migration management: from Schengen to the Arab Spring 7: Foucault and the biopolitical paradigm 8: Biopolitical border security in Europe Part 3. Thanatopolitical borders 9: Introduction 10: The sovereign ban and thanatopolitical spaces 11: Reassessing Agamben in critical border and migration studies 12: Push-backs and abandonment in the European borderscape Part 4. Zoopolitical borders 13: Introduction 14: Borderwork and contemporary spaces of detention in Europe 15: Critical infrastructure, dehumanization, animalization 16: Derridas zoopolitics and the bestial potential of border security Part 5. Immunitary borders 17: Introduction 18: Life, politics, and immunity in Esposito 19: The immunitary paradigm 20: Reconceptualizing the border as an immune system Part 6. Affirmative borders 21: Introduction 22: Affirmative biopolitics 23: Towards an affirmative biopolitical border imaginary 24: Affirmative headings for European border security and migration managementReviewsSince the second half of 2015, Europe's focus has been on closing the borders, striking a deal with Turkey to take back refugees from Greece, and shutting down the Balkan route that many thousands took to Northern Europe beforehand. Is there any way to understand these developments, beyond emotional judgements such as callous and deadly or harsh but necessary? Vaughan-Williams, whose book is aimed at broadening the scope of academic research on borders and migration, argues for a new way of seeing the problem. Daniel Trilling, Times Literary Supplement Europe's Border Crisis is a dense, provocative and timely reflection on the debate on border security and migration management in Europe and beyond. The remarkable and innovative work of Nick Vaughan-Williams constitutes a step forward in migration and border studies. Julien Brachet, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Europe's Border Crisis is essential reading for students of political theory and International Relations. Nick Vaughan-Williams skillfully combines a sophisticated interpretation of the main paradigms of biopolitics with a rich empirical analysis of EU border security policies in a powerful critique of the very foundations of contemporary European politics. He also articulates an affirmative politics of the border, in which the encounter between self and other does not take the exclusionary and violent forms that we observe all around us today. Sergei Prozorov, University of Helsink Europe's Border Crisis is a work of great interest, which integrates socio-political and philosophical analysis. Drawing on biopolitical paradigms in contemporary political philosophy, it finds keys for interpreting current dynamics within immigration policies and their antinomic consequences. It is a useful and original book that progresses research in this field of study. Roberto Esposito, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy Nick Vaughan-Williams' book offers an intellectually stimulating and conceptually challenging and rich discussion of what he terms 'Europe's border crisis.' In view of tragic deaths and human suffering at European/ EU external borders, this book makes a timely intervention in academic and non-academic debates on the controversial politics and paradoxical effects of EU border and migration policies and practices at diverse scales and spaces. Beste :Isleyen, University of Amsterdam Since the second half of 2015, Europe's focus has been on closing the borders, striking a deal with Turkey to take back refugees from Greece, and shutting down the Balkan route that many thousands took to Northern Europe beforehand. Is there any way to understand these developments, beyond emotional judgements such as callous and deadly or harsh but necessary? Vaughan-Williams, whose book is aimed at broadening the scope of academic research on borders and migration, argues for a new way of seeing the problem. Daniel Trilling, Times Literary Supplement Europe's Border Crisis is a dense, provocative and timely reflection on the debate on border security and migration management in Europe and beyond. The remarkable and innovative work of Nick Vaughan-Williams constitutes a step forward in migration and border studies. Julien Brachet, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography Europe's Border Crisis is essential reading for students of political theory and International Relations. Nick Vaughan-Williams skillfully combines a sophisticated interpretation of the main paradigms of biopolitics with a rich empirical analysis of EU border security policies in a powerful critique of the very foundations of contemporary European politics. He also articulates an affirmative politics of the border, in which the encounter between self and other does not take the exclusionary and violent forms that we observe all around us today. Sergei Prozorov, University of Helsink Europe's Border Crisis is a work of great interest, which integrates socio-political and philosophical analysis. Drawing on biopolitical paradigms in contemporary political philosophy, it finds keys for interpreting current dynamics within immigration policies and their antinomic consequences. It is a useful and original book that progresses research in this field of study. Roberto Esposito, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy Author InformationNick Vaughan-Williams is Professor of International Security and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. From 2016 to 2019 he holds the Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding research in Politics and International Relations. His programme of research, supported with grants from the British Academy, UK Economic and Social Research Council, and Leverhulme Trust, focuses on the relationship between sovereignty, subjectivity, and the spatial dimensions of security particularly the changing nature of borders and bordering practices in global politics. His book Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power (2009, 2012) was Gold Winner of the Association for Borderlands Studies Book Award. He is co-author of Critical Security Studies: An Introduction (2010, 2014) and Everyday Security Threats: Perceptions, Experiences, Consequences (2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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