Border as method, or, the multiplication of labor /

Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mezzadra, Sandro
Other Authors: Neilson, Brett
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2013]
Series:Social text books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The proliferation of borders : The world as seen from a cab ; What is a border? ; In the borderscape ; Border as method ; Containing labor power
  • Fabrica mundi : Shadow lines ; The primitive accumulation of modern cartography ; The pattern of the world ; The trained gorilla and the holy cow ; Continental drift
  • Frontiers of capital : The heterogeneity of global spaces ; Modern capitalism and the world market ; Genealogy of the international division of labor ; Transitions of capitalism ; The multiplication of labor
  • Figures of labor : Workers of the world ; Taking care ; Financial traders ; Chains that bind, chains that link ; Whose unity?
  • In the space of temporal borders : From the tea shop to the bench ; The race for talent ; Detention and deportability ; Internal borders ; Differential inclusion
  • The sovereign machine of governmentality : Tough but humane ; Governing the border ; Regime conflicts ; Assemblages of power ; The sovereign machine of governmentality
  • Zones, corridors, and postdevelopmental geographies : Corridors and channels ; In the frame ; Last train home? ; Between cognizant and infinity ; Borderzones
  • Producing subjects : Stakhanov and us ; The subjects of politics ; Labor / power ; Border struggles ; The labor of translation
  • Translating the common : Whose method? ; Articulation, translation, universality ; Bordering the common ; Cooperative, community economies, and the spaces of the common ; In struggle for the common.