… the angle of their situated gazes on what bordering meant to them in and between Calais,
Dover, Folkestone, and East and South London. At Polity, we are grateful to John Thompson, …

… our changing consciousness of borders. No longer simply … borders and the regular crossing
of borders, have become part of our routine experience, particularly in Europe where borders …

… Borders are conventionally thought to divide one polity from another but they are also able …
and held in Bristol, Cambridge and other locations in the UK by NGOs and campaign groups. …

… global) and in a locational sense (ie, where borders are located and crossed). This chapter
will scrutinize the meaning of borders in human geography and try to illustrate that “border” is …

… Once borders are reconceptualised as bordering practices we are better able to identify
and interrogate the work that they do – and the violence that they perform and (re)produce – in …

… may appear ambiguous in hindsight, ‘at the time they formed a coherent system in which
social status ordered groups within the core polity while notions of civilization and barbarism …

… of borders in Europe. To date, however, there has been little agreement in academia on what
borders … interprets borders not as static lines but as multidimensional bordering processes. …

… status define what is in effect a “borders within borders” situation, a case of “European … is
embattled) and denationalizes distinct polities, by fostering institutions whose power reaches …

… Such processes can change and as they do, borders live on as residual … , borders are
also inherently problematic? We need to change the way in which we think about borders to …

… borders of polity, power, territory and sovereignty (“border studies”) has mushroomed of
late and continues to grow. This scholarly turn is not simply a reflection of ivory tower musings, …