Nomos : a comparative political sociology of contemporary national border barriers
Journal: London School of Economics and Political Science Theses Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Year: 2015

Since 2001, there are more than 50 national border barriers around the globe — proposed, under construction, or finished. My dissertation considers this new infrastructure inside larger questions of sovereignty, governance, immigration, and security in the “borderless” age of globalization. To approach this work I used an epistemological framework of border thinking, a “third space” hermeneutics that locates the border as a central place to theorize the complex geopolitical and postcolonial rela