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  • Border Militarization

    Call for paper - AAG 2014 Tampa CFP –

    Organizers: Reece Jones, University of Hawai‘i, and Corey Johnson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Sponsors: Political Geography Specialty Group of the AAG and the IGU Commission on Political Geography

    Over the past two decades many borders were transformed from sites primarily characterized by law enforcement and policing activities designed to intercept people who violate immigration laws to sites for militarized security activities supposedly focused on preventing violent threats from entering the state’s territory. The stigma associated with fortifying political borders has disappeared and at least twenty-eight security barriers were initiated or expanded worldwide, or almost triple the number that were built during the entire Cold War. However, the construction of new physical barriers is only part of the story and an even more widespread and far-reaching trend has been the deployment of new surveillance systems including high tech sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), and military hardware including attack helicopters and armored vehicles. Contrary to expectations at the end of the Cold War, the current era of globalization has resulted in the most intensive and extensive period of bordering in the history of the world.

    This session will analyze the emergence of a new border security paradigm of hardened and militarized borderlines and an interrelated global exchange of security practices, technologies, and information. We are looking for papers that consider militarization of borders on the ground and the circuits of knowledge that allow these technologies to be deployed at borders. Both theoretical papers that consider the significance of border hardening and empirical papers that describe the history and impact of new technologies at specific borders are welcome.

    Please contact Reece Jones (reecej@hawaii.edu) or Corey Johnson (corey_johnson@uncg.edu) by November 15 in order for your abstract to be considered.

    #frontières #murs #militarisation

  • Border Militarization

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    AAG 2014 Tampa CFP – Border Militarization
    Organizers: Reece Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Hawai‘i

    Corey Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

    Over the past two decades many borders were transformed from sites primarily characterized by law enforcement and policing activities designed to intercept people who violate immigration laws to sites for militarized security activities supposedly focused on preventing violent threats from entering the state’s territory. The stigma associated with fortifying political borders has disappeared and at least twenty-eight security barriers were initiated or expanded worldwide, or almost triple the number that were built during the entire Cold War. However, the construction of new physical barriers is only part of the story and an even more widespread and far-reaching trend has been the deployment of new unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), sophisticated surveillance systems, high tech sensors, and military hardware including attack helicopters and armored vehicles. Contrary to expectations at the end of the Cold War, the current era of globalization has resulted in the most intensive and extensive period of bordering in the history of the world.

    This session will analyze the emergence of a new border security paradigm of hardened and militarized borderlines and an interrelated global exchange of security practices, technologies, and information. We are looking for papers that consider militarization of borders on the ground and the circuits of knowledge that allow these technologies to be deployed at borders. Both theoretical papers that consider the significance of border hardening and empirical papers that describe the history and impact of new technologies at specific borders are welcome.

    Please contact Reece Jones (reecej@hawaii.edu) or Corey Johnson (corey_johnson@uncg.edu)

    Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the US, India, and Israel (Zed Books)
    https://www.facebook.com/BorderWalls

    #frontières #murs #surveillenace #contrôle #sécurité