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Leave the Lemons at Home: Towards a Political Ecology of Border Space.
- Source :
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Geopolitics . 2011, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p107-120. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This paper presents a political ecology approach to the study of borders through consideration of a lemon's travels in contemporary North American border space. Following discussion of recent work on the dynamic, multi-scalar, and process-based character of modern borders, I suggest that such critical approaches could be usefully augmented by drawing on ideas about socio-material networks advanced by Bruno Latour. By adopting a political ecology framework, border scholars would be able to consider more fully the materiality of borders and bordering processes. Through the example of the lemon, I demonstrate that in constructing the fruit as a particular socio-material artifact that embodies multiple threats to US national space, it and its carrier become implicated in the regulation of political-economic and geopolitical networks that are seemingly far removed from the object of concern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14650045
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Geopolitics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 58528595
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2010.493777