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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Reece Jones
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Geography, Faculty Member
- Border Studies, South Asia, South Asian Studies, Migration, Political Geography, Geopolitics, and 14 morePolitical Geography and Geopolitics, Bengal, Bangladesh, Territoriality, Migration Studies, Geography, Boundaries, Human Geography, Borders, US-Mexico Borderlands, Critical Geopolitics, Borders and Frontiers, Nationalism, and Borderlands Studiesedit
- Reece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of Hawai'i and the author of Violent Borders and Border Walls.edit
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This article advances the understanding of borders with respect to their epistemological, ontological , and empirical intersections with violence and conflict, which remain understudied within critical border studies. Specifically, the... more
This article advances the understanding of borders with respect to their epistemological, ontological , and empirical intersections with violence and conflict, which remain understudied within critical border studies. Specifically, the article explores the potential of recent interdisciplinary research on the border-migration nexus to find critical resources that might foster a better understanding of the complex relationships between borders, violence, and conflict. From this viewpoint, the border is not only a site of the founding violence of the sovereign power, but borders-reconceived as borderscapes-can also be regarded as a site of generative struggles where alternative subjectivities and agencies could be shaped. The article concludes with a call for an applied, committed, and engaged research capable of recovering its inherently political dimension moving towards a 'politics of hope' and beyond the simplistic yet dominant interpretations of the border-violence-conflict intersections, which are trapped in the 'politics of fear'.
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This paper identifies a global trend towards hardened, militarised borders through the use of military technologies, hardware and personnel. In contrast to claims of waning state sovereignty, drawing on detailed case studies from the... more
This paper identifies a global trend towards hardened, militarised borders through the use of military technologies, hardware and personnel. In contrast to claims of waning state sovereignty, drawing on detailed case studies from the United States and European Union, we argue the militarisation of borders represents a re-articulation and expansion of state sovereignty into new spaces and arenas. We argue that the nexus of military-security contractors, dramatically increased security budgets, and the discourse of threats from terrorism and immigration is resulting in a profound shift in border security. The construction of barriers, deployment of more personnel and the investment in a wide range of military and security technologies from drones to smart border technologies that attempt to monitor, identify and prevent unauthorised movements are emblematic of this shift. We link this increasing militarisation to dehumanisation of migrant others and to the increasing mortality in border spaces. By documenting this trend and identifying a range of different practices that are included under the rubric of militarisation, this paper is both a call for nuanced interpretation and more sustained investigation of the expansion of the military into the policing of borders.
Research Interests: Political Geography and Geopolitics, Border Studies, Sovereignty, Militarism, European Union, and 10 morePolitical Geography, US-Mexico Borderlands, European Union Politics, Borderlands Studies, European Union external relations, Militarism and militarization, Borders, Borders and Frontiers, Borders and Borderlands, and State sovereignty
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... In East Bengal, as the writings and speeches of Fazlul Huq and Mohammad Sahidullah attest, there was a fundamental rethinking of the ... Shahid Ziaur Rahman (Zia), nineteenth on the BBC's list, also played a crucial role in... more
... In East Bengal, as the writings and speeches of Fazlul Huq and Mohammad Sahidullah attest, there was a fundamental rethinking of the ... Shahid Ziaur Rahman (Zia), nineteenth on the BBC's list, also played a crucial role in Bangladesh's independence movement by leading a ...
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... Thanks also to my other committee members, Kris Olds, Leila Harris, Preeti Chopra, and Mara Loveman. ... He was always available for whatever help I needed and his patience for my banal cultural questions was apparently unending.... more
... Thanks also to my other committee members, Kris Olds, Leila Harris, Preeti Chopra, and Mara Loveman. ... He was always available for whatever help I needed and his patience for my banal cultural questions was apparently unending. Thanks. Page 9. ...
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Borders, Histories, Existences is a welcome addition to the border studies literature. The most important contribution of this wide-ranging book is the effort to simultaneously contextualize India's 14,000 km of international borders... more
Borders, Histories, Existences is a welcome addition to the border studies literature. The most important contribution of this wide-ranging book is the effort to simultaneously contextualize India's 14,000 km of international borders within the history of colonialism ...