Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces
A dividing line, the border is usually perceived in terms of separation and rupture. It is a site of tension par excellence, at the origin of contestations, negotiations, and other conflicting patterns of inclusion/exclusion. This book takes us through an
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Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces
Myriam Moïse · Fred Réno Editors
Border Transgression and Reconfiguration of Caribbean Spaces
Editors Myriam Moïse Laboratoire Caribéen de Sciences Sociales (LC2S / CNRS) Université des Antilles Schoelcher, Martinique
Fred Réno Laboratoire Caribéen de Sciences Sociales (LC2S / CNRS) Université des Antilles Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe
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Foreword: On Fragmentations---Borders, Walls, Nations
Ironically, we live in a world in which human beings still see the necessity of constructing physical borders in order to protect their selfdefined/imagined communities. Those external to these borders are defined as outside of protection. Those seeking refuge—“refugees”— from the traumas of prior and contemporary imperial operations— continue to increase.1 The idea of the nation as a recent invention, continually reconstituted internally and externally, factors into any contemporary understandings of what seems solid and fixed.2 While sovereignty is always permeable, the idea of the nation state still turns on the idea of boundaries even when they are not physically or obviously present as in built walls, fences or border posts. While, in ancient times, city walls and national walls were constructed as defense against invasions f
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