Vaughan-Williams, Nick (2008) Borders, territory, law. International Political Sociology, Vol.2 (No.4). pp. 322-338. doi:10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00054.x

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Abstract

This article takes as its starting point legal arguments deployed by the United Nations on the situation of detainees held in Guantánamo Bay. This case raises a series of provocative questions about the contemporary relation between borders, territory, and law. First, it challenges dominant assumptions about the nature and location of authority in world politics based upon a conventional logic of inside/outside. Second, it raises the issue of what critical theoretical/philosophical resources might be available in order to rethink the above relation. Third, it summons the need to develop alternative border imaginaries. It is argued that some prospects for addressing these questions are found in the work of Benjamin, Derrida, Schmitt, and Agamben

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JX International law
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Boundaries, Boundaries -- Political aspects, Territory, National, International law, Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
Journal or Publication Title:	International Political Sociology
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
ISSN:	17495679
Official Date:	2008
Dates:	Date Event 2008 Published
Volume:	Vol.2
Number:	No.4
Page Range:	pp. 322-338
DOI:	10.1111/j.1749-5687.2008.00054.x
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Version or Related Resource:	This paper was originally presented at the ISA Convention in San Francisco, 2008.

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