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Research Master – (In)Security: Surveillance, Territory and Re-bordering Architecture New spatial and material frontiers of migration and war October 23rd 3:06 AM

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Research October 23rd 2020
Master – (In)Security: Surveillance, Territory and Re-bordering Architecture New spatial and material frontiers of migration and war

Zoe Elena Horn – Candidature Stage 1

 

Thesis Supervisors:

Urtzi Grau, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture

 

Contrary to those theorists who, by the start of the 1990s, had come to equate globalisation with the advent of a ‘borderless world,’ we are now witnessing a ‘rebordering’ of the state (Andreas, 2003). Walls, fences and physical barriers – while undoubtedly central to political discourses and countless everyday experiences of migration and war – cease to adequately account for the complex spatial and material border practices that are now catalysed by new global mobilities and evolving security regimes. Bridging theoretical perspectives from spatial theory, critical geography and critical security studies, this thesis examines border architecture as a topography of emerging sites through which mobile ‘flows’ converge to surveil, track and control bodies in motion. Two key questions guide the research. Firstly, within the shifting frontiers of the ‘borderscape’, what is a port of entry? Secondly, in the complex geographies of contemporary war, how are the new boundaries of ‘battlespace’ constructed?” 

 

Theoretical inquiry is supported by empirical analyses of selected migratory frontier spaces and special zones of war, which unpack the emerging spatial and material conditions and practices that enable states to enclose, bound’ and control flows of securitised bodies. These inquiries have important implications for understanding how architecture is implicated in the production of new spaces where sovereign power and territory is being grounded and reconfigured today, materialising politics and unfolding its sometimes lethal effects within the new spatial modalities of migration and war.

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