Apr
20
Evros River Border Crossing
Super excited to be heading off to the Evros River Border Crossing between Turkey and Greece for some transnational research into the geopolitics of the area this year. I will be thinking about borders as "climate walls" and how they are used to keep refugees at bay.
The malleability of borders in this Covid Pandemic has shown us that they are at once imagined and historically mutable and rigidly defined (defended) constructions of national political will. It is always important to ask who borders serve to protect, exclude, and contain. The Covid Pandemic has certainly reminded us that borders are living spaces that return us to lived experience of belonging and (non) belonging.
I look forward to sharing more with you as my new work and research progresses.
The malleability of borders in this Covid Pandemic has shown us that they are at once imagined and historically mutable and rigidly defined (defended) constructions of national political will. It is always important to ask who borders serve to protect, exclude, and contain. The Covid Pandemic has certainly reminded us that borders are living spaces that return us to lived experience of belonging and (non) belonging.
I look forward to sharing more with you as my new work and research progresses.
